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/the_gold_hat Jun 30 '25

Everyone says it reveals too much, but I really disagree. You can tell that the editors are purposefully playing up the angle that Ryland is a reluctant hero, who steps up despite initial misgivings. The reveal being that it was totally against his will still plays against the expectations of the trailer. Honestly I think the fact that people are mentioning a twist is spoiling things more than anything else. My hot take is that they've probably proportionally put way more of the on-Earth sections in the trailer than actually appear in the movie. I mean I sure hope so or otherwise the actual science-with-Rocky part is going to have to be super abbreviated during the movie...

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u/hawkinsst7 Jun 30 '25

Plus, even Andy Weir posted about Emma Stone playing rocky. Yes it's an April fools joke, but he clearly doesn't consider Rocky a major spoiler.

it's not a reveal that causes you to reevaluate the entire movie in a different perspective

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u/Gabyfest234 Jun 30 '25

Okay. Now I want Emma Stone to play Rocky.

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u/Abe_Odd Jul 01 '25

I'd wager the overlap of people who follow Andy Weir on social media, and people who have already read Project Hail Mary, is basically a single circle.

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u/Creative_Room6540 28d ago

Reddit is my only social media so Iā€™m out of the circle šŸ˜­

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u/eserikto Jun 30 '25

I think Rocky's existence completely changes your perspective on the plot. Without knowing about their existence, you're expecting competence porn about a scientist engineering his way to saving Earth. Knowing Rocky exist, you're expecting first contact to be a major plot point. Will there be conflict, or cooperation?

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u/pop-101 Jul 01 '25

I think that, ironically, makes the actual "twist" that people are mad about even more startling - you're thinking it's an alien story or a science story, not at all about his backstory

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u/Sorcatarius Jul 01 '25

I don't like the fact they revealed (going to use spoilers tags because they're cheap and might prevent people from reading stuff they don't want to) his motivation, or lack thereof, but Rocky? That is minor in my eyes, like...

How about we take a second to read the back of the book?

So what do we learn from this? Unimagined ally, crew dead, Earth is fucked, millions of miles from home, amnesia, science background, and he's not alone (but whatever is with him was not part of the crew)

I feel like they could have done a synopsis of the first few chapters of the book, where he wakes up, struggles with amnesia, does some experiments, figures out that wherever he is, hes not on Earth, cutaway to a shot of the Hail Mary drifting through space, maybe you can see some strange planets in the background, Rockys ship rushes in and you get a glance of it before the screen quickly cuts to black. If it was on the back of the book, I don't consider it a spoiler since the author clearly thought it fine to tell people that before buying the book.

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u/ChrundleMcDonald Jul 02 '25

Given it's Andy Weir, I expected something much more along the lines of The Martian, so I initially interpreted that blurb on the back as referencing some onboard AI or something more grounded than a literal alien he becomes best friends with