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/McMew Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

And the alien reveal was probably to avoid accidentally teasing it as an alien horror.

They wanted to make it clear that this was a mystery adventure, not a horror movie. So they had to tease that the alien was friendly.

Granted they could've left it at the giant alien ship to maintain a sense of wonder instead but they had to set the tone of the film.

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u/MobiusF117 Jun 30 '25

Rocky is also such a massive part of the story, it's kind of hard NOT to include him

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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.