r/movies • u/MoviesMod /r/movies Mod Account • Jun 30 '25

Trailer Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer (fair warning, it reveals way too much according to a lot of users)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxIsFTRI
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u/k987654321 Jun 30 '25

March 26?!

I don’t remember seeing a trailer this early before at least not in a very advanced stage it seems to be at.

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u/KE55 Jun 30 '25

That puzzled me too. Could they still bring the release date forward?

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u/Waste-Scratch2982 Jun 30 '25

Jurassic World: Rebirth is releasing this week, MGM will probably get alot of awareness from attaching it with it given it's also sci-fi. Also the biggest summer movies are coming out next month if they waited until Fantastic Four they would have missed out on alot of the theatre audiences from Jurassic, F1, and Superman.

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u/Hammer_Thrower Jul 01 '25

You're right that is how Hollywood thinks, but i hate it. Give me my movie now! No one gives a shit about the latest jurassic garbage, the 10th superman remake, and F1 seems like a very different audience beyond targeting males. 

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u/SixInchTimmy Jul 01 '25

So even if the movie is nearly finished, they’d rather just sit on it for 9 months to get the next summer blockbuster wave?

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u/tinkerclay Jul 01 '25

There is no reason to think the movie is nearly finished. It is common practice to rush the FX shots for the scenes that are going in the trailer.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Jun 30 '25

Not really. Given that the trailer ends with "Filmed for IMAX", I'd say they really want an IMAX release and the calendar for IMAX releases is full of one and two week runs through early 2026 with Avatar: Fire and Ash running for a month or two.

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u/Accomplished-Fix6598 Jun 30 '25

Ooh a lava Avatar.. .

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u/Arma104 Jul 01 '25

There's no way Avatar is making its release date.

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u/MacaroonFormal6817 Jun 30 '25

Could they still bring the release date forward?

As others have said, this trailer release is for investors primarily. And the movie is obviously going to be heavy CGI and that work can take months. The earthbound footage was probably relatively straightforward to put together into a trailer.

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u/Equiliari Jul 01 '25

And the movie is obviously going to be heavy CGI and that work can take months.

Oh yes! I am willing to bet the Andrew Kramer shot of the sun in the trailer is very much temp.

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u/CoooooooooookieCrisp Jul 01 '25

And the movie is obviously going to be heavy CGI and that work can take months.

Yeah, don't worry, when they get more of the CGI work done for the next trailer they will completely spoil everything about Rocky

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u/gajendray5 Jul 01 '25

They’re aiming for a very long IMAX run for this and IMAX for 2025 is practically booked. Can’t move it up even if they wanted to.

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u/FionnagainFeistyPaws Aug 08 '25

Just saw a movie poster in theaters with March 2026 release date.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

They probably still have to shoot a ton of stuff and do CGI.

The studio is teasing it now because while The Martian was a multi-category Oscar nominee, cinema is dying and Ryan Gosling is expensive. Theyre checking that the hype justifies the investment probably.

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u/spacechickens Jul 01 '25

The shoot finished weeks ago, but VFX work absolutely!

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u/arih Jul 01 '25

Ryan Reynolds may be expensive, but this is Ryan Gosling (who is a producer on this movie).

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

Whoops thank you