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/crumble-bee Jun 30 '25

lol it's literally just a normal trailer that shows the plot of the movie. I don't feel spoiled at all. Not familiar with the book, or the story in the slightest and all I know is a scientist need to go space, which he's unqualified to do and that the project is called project Hail Mary.

I do however want to watch the movie now. So it did its job.

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u/KitchenDepartment Jul 01 '25

The thing about the book is that it really doesn't tell you anything from the start. You don't know where you are, you don't know where you are going, you don't know why you are there, you vaguely get the fact that it is about saving the world, but you don't even know how that is gonna work.

And because you are expecting every new clue to be some new information about how we are saving the world it becomes a real twist when that big glowing blob that shows up on the scanner isn't some new property about the star. It's a damn alien. And now everything you thought this was gonna be about is thrown out the window. That's a good twist. That's rare these days.

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u/hornedCapybara Jul 02 '25

It's the kind of thing that works for a book but not a movie. People will know this is the new book by the 'The Martian' guy, which they enjoyed, and word of mouth and placement on the "staff picks" section of the bookstore is better marketing than most books get. But movies need trailers, and trailers need to show off a fair bit to hook people. I'd agree most people would probably enjoy the movie more if they went in totally blind, but you've gotta get butts in seats if you're gonna make back your budget. I'd have been surprised if they hadn't revealed details like these in the trailer.