Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer
I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, produced the Spider-verse movies) are directing. Out in theaters March 2026.
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Wow, looking forward to this. Loved the book, read (listened to) many times. I kinda wish it was a streaming series instead... so much stuff that's going to end up left out 😭
I liked the book, but i don't think the move will be quite as good as "The Martian". That, to me, was a unique success because the actor, Matt Damon, has the perfect personality to portray the wisecracking hero of that story. It's hard to replicate that again
I spent most of the trailer impressed with how they were avoiding the central story of interacting with an alien species. Honestly, I was a little disappointed when they gave that away.
I know nothing about the book and it's wild they felt the need to show the actual alien in the trailer. They establish the entire premise of the movie, science teacher turned astronaut, the plot down to the point of 11.9 light years away and ... have to show that it turns into an alien contact movie?
I happened to be in the middle of reading the book for the first time when the trailer dropped. My son warned me not to watch it until I finished reading, which I did about half and hour ago and watched the trailer. I agree that I think it would have been better to avoid that reveal, though I understand that the job of a trailer is to get people to watch the movie, and spoilers tend not to dissuade people I guess.
Somehow I missed that they were even making this movie but no matter, this trailer has completely made my day! I think Ryan can absolutely pull off the buddy movie aspect and I loved that the alien was teased in the last quarter of the clip. I am so very much in need of human + alien world-saving shenanigans at the moment. Can not wait.
I read the book and, like Jason, thought it was fine. Clearly it didn't make much of an impression because almost everything in the trailer was a surprise to me.
My wife read it for her book club and really enjoyed it, and since she knows I enjoy science fiction she’s been hinting I should give it a go before the film comes out. But if I do really like it, I won’t watch the film, because then I complain about how the book was so much better.
@kottke this is weirding me out: for a moment thought upside-down Ryan Gosling was a young Harrison Ford and was wondering why would he sell out to the AI fascists.
now i can’t unsee upside-down Ryan Gosling as young Harrison Ford.
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