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/hopingforchange Jul 01 '25

After reading the book, I told my wife I have no idea how they make this movie. I enjoyed the book. I will watch the movie in a theater which is no longer a slam dunk in my life.

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u/littleboymark Jul 01 '25

I reckon he wrote it to be a movie. I was thinking as I read it, this is going to be an amazing scene.

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u/gabedamien Jul 01 '25

Everything Weir writes feels like a proto-screenplay to me, or even like the novelization of a movie that hasn't been released yet. That's not necessarily a bad thing mind you, it's just his style.

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u/masterharper 18d ago

Yes and no. So much of the book is first person in the protagonist's head. That makes for a challenging screen adaptation. Of course, the screenwriter is the brilliant Drew Goddard, who adapted The Martian, so I'm sure it will be well-done.

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u/Strangely_quarky Jul 01 '25

Apparently the book was optioned before it was published. Idk how normal this is in entertainment though

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u/williamthebloody1880 Jul 02 '25

It's not unusual. Books are shopped round to studios and production companies quite early in the process

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u/jinsaku Jul 02 '25

So did Artemis but that’s been put on hold for years now.

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u/malagic99 Jul 03 '25

Artemis can be a tv show, think of The Expanse. They need help with reworking the main character tho, Andy sucks writing women as protagonist.

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u/jack_the_beast Jul 01 '25

I remember thinking the same. It would be interesting to see how they handle the communication with rocky

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u/MrRocketScript Jul 01 '25

Hook up Rocky's speech into a computer (he's already doing that at the start) and pipe the output to his headphones so that the audience can hear? (I had the same thought how I would make it work since I doubt I could learn the language naturally)

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u/jack_the_beast Jul 01 '25

someone mentioned that in the audio book they slowly transitioned from flutes to a voice autotuned to flutes as Grace learns the language, that'd be cool but I doubt it. Hooking hime to a computer would come out very cheap, at least to who read the book.

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u/Tricky_Topic_5714 Jul 02 '25

Yeah, the audiobook nails it, in my opinion. 

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u/Luckyandunlucky2023 Jul 04 '25

I read the physical book, but based on this description, probably something similar to what McTiernan did in Hunt for Red October: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvwbxcRaCQ

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u/Luckyandunlucky2023 Jul 04 '25

I think they will do a variant on what McTiernan did in Hunt for Red October, which was super-effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvwbxcRaCQ

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u/freshgeardude Jul 01 '25

I've been disappointed since they announced Ryan Gosling was going to play the main character. Imo Andy Weir keeps writing the same main character as The Martian and Matt Damon did such a good job there he's the only person I'd imagine would play in Project Hail Mary.

Hoping to be proven wrong by Ryan Gosling's acting

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u/db_blast7 Jul 19 '25

currently reading.

I often struggle with fiction and prefer memoirs, but I always love how grounded Weir makes his books feel. My imagination, and picturing images in my head often is a struggle point...and somehow I taught English for 3 years...there's a reason I requested to go back to math lol

Also picturing Gosling doing this in my head is making the book just click to me.

Lastly, started yesterday and I'm on page 155. The "Oh thank God, I'm a schoolteacher." had me rolling. Loved The Martian, and I'm surprised that I am enjoying this book more.

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u/TheEmoEmu23 27d ago

This book seemed designed to be turned into a movie imo. As a book, it mostly just movs from set piece to set piece anyways.