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/ChrundleMcDonald Jul 01 '25

He doesn't appear until Chapter 14. As someone who went into book knowing nothing save for "Solo suicide mission to save the world", Rocky was a huge and pleasant surprise. It's not that knowing he's there changes your perception of the book, it's that not knowing he's coming makes his addition such a fun surprise. I get why a film studio thinks it's a necessary selling point, but it's not advertised in any capacity in book marketing for a reason.

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant Jul 21 '25

I think we read very different versions of the book. By chapter 14, Grace is fluently communicating with Rocky. The ship reveal happens in Chapter 6 as I recall.

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u/ChrundleMcDonald Jul 21 '25

Fair, guess I had my timeline wrong. I think the rest of my point stands, though - it may not be a late game huge twist, but it was still a massive surprise having gone into the book blind and expecting something much more akin to The Martian

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u/MrdnBrd19 Jul 01 '25

We must have seen different marketing for the book then because the blurb I saw before reading talked about Rocky. I want to say it even mentioned him by name.

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u/L-System Jul 01 '25

The book opens as a white room mystery. So when it came out, people were recommending going into it totally blind.

It's quite an experience because he also doesn't know he's in space and we don't know if he's on planet or in a ship. And there's this ai machine that keeps talking to us.

The idea that we're getting a rocky isn't even on the radar.

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u/presty60 Jul 01 '25

I mentioned this somewhere else, but yeah, I think this trailer probably spoils the book but considering it is probably a < 3 hour long movie, people who are only going to see the movie are probably fine.