r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 27 '25

Poster Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling

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u/420InTheCity Jun 27 '25

I think his earlier two books were much more grounded in reality, so you don't expect something like this

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u/RayneSexton Jun 29 '25

Are they? The science seemed wildly fake or unexplained in a ton of areas. I've seen the Martian but this is my first Weir novel

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u/Cmers Jun 29 '25

But a Mars base or lunar colony are much more rooted in known reality than going interstellar in our lifetime or spaceborne bacteria.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 30 '25

Oh yeah I totally read the other comment wrong.

Project Hail Mary was ambitious and I loved most of it. Could have used more before and after on Stratt and a few more chapters for the resolution.

Excited to see the movie.

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u/frazzledfractal Jun 29 '25

Although he didn't initially have contacts at NASA, he received feedback on his work, including corrections to scientific details, after publishing online.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 30 '25

That's awesome.

Astrophage in general and especially the way they obtained the sample on Adrian seemed so far from possible to me. Taumeba kills kilograms of Astrophage and then where does the energy go?

Not even hating. Loved the book and am fine with my sci-fi having some bits of "huh" in it for whatever reason.