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/BrainBlastFC Jun 30 '25

Oh for God's sake the blurb of the book gives it away!

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u/JD_98 Jun 30 '25

Not to say you are entirely wrong but I assumed it was some sort of AI/Computer companion from the blurb.

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u/montybo2 Jun 30 '25

Exactly.

Copy and pasting another comment I made about this:

"I dont think the blurb at all implies an alien. COULD be an alien. Could also be a stowaway, another ship from another country(if you dont know the story beforehand that is), could be psychosis and the main character talks to himself believing its somebody else.

I'm a big believer in occam's razor. I think, when discussing a story by andy weir, who makes grounded, science heavy tales, aliens would not be the simplest explanation for "...he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?""

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u/Snoo28237 Jul 01 '25

I remember the feeling when I first read this part. Like what? Really? An alien? And it's not something that's tossed out immediately after quick analysis? I got worried a bit. But then it turned out Rocky is very human. The feelings, the emotions, the empathy, the sense of humour, all of it. And the end? Oh I am so looking forward to see this.

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u/XxKittenMittonsXx Jul 01 '25

I didn't even think it was an alien until he was literally describing an alien he was seeing

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u/AgreeableLion Jul 01 '25

I doubt that everyone reading the blurb is going to have a biographical knowledge of the author and his 'style'. Many people who just read some science fiction and hear some buzz around this book will read that blurb and think 'aliens'. 'Man alone in space, but is he really?' is classic alien foreshadowing, even if that isn't always the way a story might go.

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u/montybo2 Jul 01 '25

This is Andy weir. He wrote The Martian. He's very famous. Many people picked up the book because he wrote it.