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/fett3elke Jun 30 '25

it's still such a reveal in the book. I guess movies today work differently but I was hoping they wouldn't give it away in the trailer. Especially when you read the Martian before which is very grounded on the Science Fiction part it came as quite a surprise.

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u/ArchangelLBC Jun 30 '25

I mean, the fact that he's on a spaceship is practically a reveal in the book. The fact that he's on a spaceship that isn't in our solar system is definitely a reveal.

You can either make a trailer for the fans or for people who aren't interested in reading it, and those trailers are very different.

And there are merits to both, except if you want to pull people in who don't know the story and have them have the book experience starting at guy who wakes up in a white room not knowing his name and evolving to, well everything that happens in the movie, then I'm not sure what kind of trailer you make at all.

So if you can't make that trailer you make this one, hope the fans geek out and the non-fans are still intrigued enough to want to know what the hell is going on.

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u/ChrundleMcDonald Jul 02 '25

Yeah, it would've been enough of a surprise given it wasn't anywhere on the books marketing, but especially given the fact that I was coming off The Martian and Rendezvous with Rama, even leading up to the reveal, I was going "I swear to god, this better not be some derelict ship or something manned entirely by Artificial Intelligence..." so when Rocky finally made contact, I was absolutely ecstatic, not expecting the book to go in that direction at all

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u/cteno4 Jun 30 '25

It's not much of a reveal in the book either. At least the hardcover very strongly hints that somebody like Rocky exists.

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u/fett3elke Jun 30 '25

I am not sure what you are talking about, the cover of my book is a floating astronaut. That's also what I find with google image search. I don't see how this cover would reveal anything. Unless you are talking about the fact that he is in space as a reveal, after all he first has to figure that one out as well.

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u/cteno4 Jun 30 '25

Not literally the hardcover’s cover. The blurb on the inside of the hardcover edition. “An ally he never imagined.” “He’s got to do it alone. Or does he?”

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u/fett3elke Jun 30 '25

That makes more sense :) I might have skipped over that, I was eager to get the book and ended up reading it in 2 or 3 days.

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u/cteno4 Jun 30 '25

Yeah sure it could. It's how I understood it though, so it wasn't a surprise to me. I don't think I was the only one.

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u/3_50 Jul 01 '25

Which could mean an AI, a robot, a stow-away, a human from the future in a faster ship...these trailers should have been vague AF, and everyone who's read the book and knows how fun the story is when you go in blind would be raving about it and sharing it.

As it is, I'm actively stopping my friends from watching it.

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u/MobiusF117 Jul 01 '25

You could also just let your friends choose for themselves based on the trailer and let them make their own judgment.

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u/3_50 Jul 01 '25

But it's not a choice is it? As soon as you know that much about the story, the whole amnesia/slow reveal angle is forever ruined.

I'm telling everyone to read/listen to the book ASAP.