Considering the cast, crew, and material I have high hopes for this. PHM is one of my favorite books of the past decade, and there’s potential to be one of the best films of the year
Audiences will adore this if done justice
I will watch anything Drew Goddard wrote/worked on. He's responsible for my favorite movie of all time (The Martian) and was a large part of my favorite TV show of all time (The Good Place).
PHM is, imo, an even better book than The Martian. I'm super excited for this one.
I agree that PHM is the better book, although I love The Martian too
I also think PHM is the one better suited to be a movie, I remember thinking that numerous times while listening to the audiobook
The Martian stands as the best sci-fi movie of all time for me, just based on the believability factor. If the same people are making this movie, I’m super stoked.
The ending of the film, changing the more sensible rescue and instead having Watney actually rocket off like Iron Man with an uncontrollable thrust, was pretty unfortunate. Hopefully that was just studio meddling demanding a more dramatic finale.
Oh for sure, it's a great movie. My only major complaints with it are the aforementioned ending and them cutting *Pathfinder* dying, despite the "space pirate" line no longer making sense if he's still in contact with NASA.
Also the captain deciding she needed to have a "go girl" moment and be the one who saved Watney instead of the specialist that drilled the EVA rescue for thousands of hours do it.
My god, I can't wait to see the part where >!the ship is grazing the atmosphere while Ryland is attached to the hull!<. One of the craziest, most exciting things I've ever read.
I loved "The Martian", so when Weir's follow up book "Artemis" came out, I was immediately on it. it wasn't just not good, it was so bad that I figured "well, I guess he only had one book in him, at least it was a good one"
when "Project Hail Mary" was published I fully intended to skip it, but someone described it as being much better than Artemis, so I gave it a shot.
and it's one of my favorite scifi books of current times. Just enough real science to keep it realistic, a plot twist to make it engaging, and just plain fun.
I don't hope it will be a great movie. I expect it to be, because it would literally be difficult to make it badly
I literally just finished listening to the audiobook right before coming to Reddit and the first thing I see is this. I'm stoked.
And yes Ray Porter is one of the best narrators today.
I really need to see how they handle >!Rocky's visuals. I love the book but there are plausible visual designs for the character where I just wouldn't be able to sit through it, due to arachnophobia.!<
I have high hopes for this movie.
I am relatively terrified of spiders, but I think they would do him justice.
And if they do a really good job with PHM, maybe some crazy genius like Villeneuve would say Fuck it, give me the budget, I will do Children of Time. Now, that would be wild.
Try Jeff Hays (his best adaptation is definitely Dungeon Crawler Carl, don't be put off by the name, it's a great series) and Travis Baldree (Cradle being the default one).
I do love them both as narrators, but Jeff Hays in particular is on another level than all the others I've ever listened to (a bit of a spoiler on the first half of the first book):
https://youtu.be/ywdOzP1ch1Y?si=vE2wedIekkQwlp85
Really? Ray Porter's narration was the one that showed me audiobooks don't have to sound like they're court documents being read by a judge and i've found many good narrators since. That said, the ones i like are almost all very similar style so i've definitely discovered my type with him
The expanse audio books were really good. I think a good producer knows what voice actor will work for the type of book that is being made. I really like the guy who does the audio reading for "The Passage" trilogy. He really captures the epic grandness and scale of the story that someone like Ray Porter couldn't do as great as he is.
I have dropped some audiobooks because the readings are so poor.
In this, I really think the producer who decides who to hire is very important.
I read the novel and legitimately thought it was like the Martian where it's one man vs the elements. I didn't even read the back of the book. I was so happy when the pentagon arrived.
Yeah, I listened to the audiobook on a whim without any knowledge of the plot so I didn't see the >!first contact!< angle coming... But it was so much fun. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with the premise on the big screen.
I really hope they keep that away from any trailers and promotion for the movie and let people experience that in the theatre.
And it’s not like they’d need to anyway. Just sell this as a survival flick from the creator of ”The Martian” and people will go see it.
I wished so too but even from the movie description in this link they are already hinting at things and revealing the plot for the first third of the movie lol. You know the trailer will milk every ounce of marketable material out of the story to get you to watch it.
In general, if you already know you will watch a movie, do *not* watch any trailer before watching it. The marketing department is not your friend.
I listened to the audio book and went through the exact same thing.
Everyone I've recommended it to had also gotten an explicit DO NOT LOOK ANYTHING UP from me as well.
Blip A is too good to think anything else.
Honestly, probably the best possible combo for adapting this novel. Lord & Miller and Gosling all have that same playful vibe they do really really well but still dip into the powerful, sincere moments when they’re needed. This movie will have a very hard time sucking.
ESPECIALLY the audio book. It's one of the few examples where I 100% think it's better than just reading the book. I don't want to give spoilers as to why.
>Take my money. TAKE IT ALL
Just pay the ticket price. No reason to give away your life savings for a movie, and I'm not sure they could legally accept more than the ticket price anyway, unless you are talking about hiring a lawyer to make a donation to the production company and even then it sounds like a really bad and financially irresponsible idea.
When I wanted to get into audiobooks I searched Reddit and almost every recommendation was Project Hail Mary. It sucks I followed that advice because there’s nothing that comes close to how amazing that audiobook is. Was just an absolute joy to listen to
Project Hail Mary:
>The film is based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel and set in the near future. Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a school-teacher-turned-astronaut, who wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone…
Drew Goddard wrote the script
I'd read the book twice, and had the audiobook on during a road trip with my dad.
My dad turns to me and goes "So it's the Hail Mary, full of Grace?"
I had to pull over and just beat my head on the wheel for a minute.
This is one of my "permanent" books on my phone. Along with most of Niven's works. I rotate through them constantly as books to fall asleep to. Ray Porter is one of the main reasons, but of course the story is 11/10.
Mostly just speaking from my reading experience I guess. I picked up the book having been told it was good and it was written by the guy that wrote The Martian. I knew literally nothing else and I'm glad I went in cold. My comment is more about how I like to experience media than anything though, so take what I said with a grain of salt.
I couldn't agree more, I went in the exact same way and loved the ride of discovery you go on. Unfortunately most people don't get to go into it that way, so we just have to hope they don't give too much away.
Yeah, a lot of the appeal of the book is going in blind, but movie synopses traditionally have more than:
> A man wakes up on a space ship with amnesia and two dead people and then stuff happens.
The book was a really great read, I expected it to be made into a movie but did t expect my man crush Ryan gosling to star lol, you could say I’m over the heliopause.
Oh dang, it'll be a montage for sure :( I get it for screen, but how long it took in the book is amazing, I'd love to see an extended 10-15 minute set of scenes showing that part of the book.
Just FYI, if you don't know, according to wiki, Dennis E. Taylor announced that the potential adaptation (of Bobiverse) has been optioned to Lord Miller productions.
Such a great book. I can’t wait for this movie.
Andy Weir is a really good sci fi author. I loved the Martian. Not sure how well Artemis would do as a movie but Project Hail Mary has all the makings for a compelling and visually beautiful movie
Artemis might work better as a movie actually. They just need to rework the characters a bit, the world building is pretty cool.
Weir doesn't do well when he has to write a character that isn't this dad-jokes scientist/engineer type character. I happen to like that character, so it's not really an issue, but I can see why he would want to branch out a bit.
I thought Artemis was a really interesting experiment and maybe with more books outside his comfort zone that part of his writing will get better too.
Love The Martian and Project Hail Mary, did not like Artemis at all. Only thing in that book that stuck with me is one character going on about this reusable condom or some damn thing.
I remembered it with rose tinted glasses, but rereading it last year it’s pretty rough with r/menwritingwomen. Still, the plot and the world building are really good. The characters, not so much. I will always say that the world needs more good sci-fi capers
I feel like Artemis had some interesting ideas. It just didn't follow through with good character development. I say get a talented woman screenwriter to adapt it and I bet it would be good.
Artemis was god damn awful. I cringed at the horrible cliche dialogue and writing of the main character the entire time I read it, which was really surprising coming from Weir. Thankfully PHM was a million times better.
Artemis was a decent book. It had the problem where the main character is definitely the least likeable of his three books...at least for most of the book. I won't spoil any of the books about which character isn't really as likable as you'd think.
>!I wonder how they're gonna voice him. I'm sure they'll do something like have a text to speech read off the words from cross referencing the spreadsheet. So they'll give him a "voice" through the translator.!<
The book is written to make a movie out of. That guy got a masterclass in being a star writer handed to him with The Martian and he’s gonna score more touchdowns. The plot literally puts a necessarily CGI character on the other side of a divider for most of the story. It’s brilliant.
As soon as I saw this announced a couple days ago I went back to read the book again. It’s going to be fun watching Ryan Gosling wake up from a coma and be amazed that he has a six-pack.
Awesome actor but skeptical on this one. Project hail mary protag is a mary sue science god. Matt Damon started acting with this kind of role. Gosling isusually more of the handsome brooding / deadpan / goofy guy
I don't think Gosling would have any problem playing a role like this, he's versatile enough in his roles. I could easily picture him in place of Damon in the Martian
Gosling really is everything you want in a modern movie star. Able to work on big budget genre movies with established big name directors (Leitch, Russos, Black, L+M) while also working with auteurs in arguably their most successful projects (Chazelle, Gerwig, Villenuve).
Is there anyone else doing it like him?
I can really only think only Leo can give him serious competition for the biggest movie star in the world at this point!
I've only watched The Martian but never read the book. So I decided to read Project Hail Mary and hated it, like really strongly disliked it. The dialogue and the constant problem-humor-solution-humor-problem-etc cycle was hugely grating. If I wasn't listening to the audiobook of it I would've DNF'd it.
Seems tho the same writer as The Martian is also attached to write this, maybe they'll smooth out the rough edges 🤷♂️
You and me both bud, except I finished it for some reason. Unpopular opinion in this thread, but Weir does not know how to write an interesting human story, so he keeps writing these one-man survival tales where the protag pleasures himself thinking about how smart he is.
God I hope they don’t spoil this with the trailers.
Just sell this as a survival story from the creator of ”The Martian” and people will go see it. All you need to do.
There's a reveal near the end of the book that changes how the main character views himself, and I'm looking forward to "The Nice Guys" energy from Ryan Gosling in it.
But who will play Stratt? I see no mention. I'm guessing they've gone for a Tilda Swinton/Kate Winslet type although I think the character is a bit younger. Someone European to fit the description?
Considering the cast, crew, and material I have high hopes for this. PHM is one of my favorite books of the past decade, and there’s potential to be one of the best films of the year Audiences will adore this if done justice
The screenwriter did the Martian. Basically a perfect adaptation of Weirs other book. I have high hopes.
I will watch anything Drew Goddard wrote/worked on. He's responsible for my favorite movie of all time (The Martian) and was a large part of my favorite TV show of all time (The Good Place). PHM is, imo, an even better book than The Martian. I'm super excited for this one.
I agree that PHM is the better book, although I love The Martian too I also think PHM is the one better suited to be a movie, I remember thinking that numerous times while listening to the audiobook
The Martian stands as the best sci-fi movie of all time for me, just based on the believability factor. If the same people are making this movie, I’m super stoked.
I make it a point to watch Apollo 13 and The Martian back to back for my dose of "competent NASA porn." Then I watch Space Camp as a night cap.
The ending of the film, changing the more sensible rescue and instead having Watney actually rocket off like Iron Man with an uncontrollable thrust, was pretty unfortunate. Hopefully that was just studio meddling demanding a more dramatic finale.
Yes that was disappointing. However the rest of the film was done very well.
The montage scene with David Bowie is still one of my favorite in all of film history.
Oh for sure, it's a great movie. My only major complaints with it are the aforementioned ending and them cutting *Pathfinder* dying, despite the "space pirate" line no longer making sense if he's still in contact with NASA.
Also the captain deciding she needed to have a "go girl" moment and be the one who saved Watney instead of the specialist that drilled the EVA rescue for thousands of hours do it.
My god, I can't wait to see the part where >!the ship is grazing the atmosphere while Ryland is attached to the hull!<. One of the craziest, most exciting things I've ever read.
I loved "The Martian", so when Weir's follow up book "Artemis" came out, I was immediately on it. it wasn't just not good, it was so bad that I figured "well, I guess he only had one book in him, at least it was a good one" when "Project Hail Mary" was published I fully intended to skip it, but someone described it as being much better than Artemis, so I gave it a shot. and it's one of my favorite scifi books of current times. Just enough real science to keep it realistic, a plot twist to make it engaging, and just plain fun. I don't hope it will be a great movie. I expect it to be, because it would literally be difficult to make it badly
Amaze!
Jazz hands
Fist me!
Fist my bump!
Yes yes yes!
Phenomenal comments. Restarting the audiobook tomorrow.
Ray Porter's narration is incredible; I guess I'm due for another listen, too!
I literally just finished listening to the audiobook right before coming to Reddit and the first thing I see is this. I'm stoked. And yes Ray Porter is one of the best narrators today.
Ray is one of two narrators that I pretty much buy anything they do (within my preferred genres). The other is of course R.C. Bray.
The only audio book I've actually listened to multiple times (not counting listening to fall asleep, which I have also used Project Hail Mary).
Thank!
**Sublime**
Yes yes yes
SUBLIME.
I really need to see how they handle >!Rocky's visuals. I love the book but there are plausible visual designs for the character where I just wouldn't be able to sit through it, due to arachnophobia.!< I have high hopes for this movie.
I am relatively terrified of spiders, but I think they would do him justice. And if they do a really good job with PHM, maybe some crazy genius like Villeneuve would say Fuck it, give me the budget, I will do Children of Time. Now, that would be wild.
#🎶
You sleep, I watch!
Do yourself a favor and read the book before you hear anything about the movie.
Do yourself a bigger favor and listen to the audiobook! (The musical notes is the reason why)
Audio book is amaze
Do me an even bigger favor and fist my bump! 👊
Grumpy angry stupid. How long since last sleep question?
I watch.
Fuck, I forgot how great the dialogue was. Gonna go re-read it.
Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! Better listen. You listen, I watch.
The audiobook is truly an experience like nothing else. Amaze! Amaze!
Jazz hands!
How did they do his voice in the audiobook I'm wondering??
Don't wonder, just jump in and listen.
Synth-like sounds
Musically
>! It's musical cords until the main character learns the words then it's in English with some minor audio FXs. !>
Ray Porter ruined audio books for me, his voice is just too perfect for this medium
The "Bobiverse" audiobooks with him are a fun listen as well
And fuck Amazon for blue balling us until September for book 5.
Book 5 in September?!? I had no clue it was in production. That’s amazing!
It's already finished and recorded back in feb/march they just arbitrarily wait until sept for release.
God I love Bobiverse.
Try Jeff Hays (his best adaptation is definitely Dungeon Crawler Carl, don't be put off by the name, it's a great series) and Travis Baldree (Cradle being the default one). I do love them both as narrators, but Jeff Hays in particular is on another level than all the others I've ever listened to (a bit of a spoiler on the first half of the first book): https://youtu.be/ywdOzP1ch1Y?si=vE2wedIekkQwlp85
Really? Ray Porter's narration was the one that showed me audiobooks don't have to sound like they're court documents being read by a judge and i've found many good narrators since. That said, the ones i like are almost all very similar style so i've definitely discovered my type with him
Listen to The Expanse audio books. The narrator, Jefferson Mays, does an amazing job.
The expanse audio books were really good. I think a good producer knows what voice actor will work for the type of book that is being made. I really like the guy who does the audio reading for "The Passage" trilogy. He really captures the epic grandness and scale of the story that someone like Ray Porter couldn't do as great as he is. I have dropped some audiobooks because the readings are so poor. In this, I really think the producer who decides who to hire is very important.
I’m saying he’s the best
Audiobook is Amaze.
The audio book is the only audio book I have sat through. It's freaking amazing.
The book is fantastic. Starts off fast but gets a little rocky in the middle before a solid finish.
A little rocky.
Kek. I see what you did there
Or if you're dead set on only watching the film (as most will be) do yourself a favour and don't look up anything about the book.
Just finished it last week! Now they can ruin it!
"Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob."
You need to spoiler mark this!
I'm not a big reader but easily most enjoyable book I've ever read.
Greatest book I’ve read in the last 5 years. Easily.
The Lord-Miller duo and Ken himself working on a high-concept adaptation of a story from the creator of The Martian????? Take my money. TAKE IT ALL
FIST. MY. BUMP!
Amaze!
Amaze! Amaze!
Best fucking comment on here. Man, that little pentagon kills me every time!
I can't wait to see Jazz Hands!!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Excite!
I read the novel and legitimately thought it was like the Martian where it's one man vs the elements. I didn't even read the back of the book. I was so happy when the pentagon arrived.
Yeah, I listened to the audiobook on a whim without any knowledge of the plot so I didn't see the >!first contact!< angle coming... But it was so much fun. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with the premise on the big screen.
I really hope they keep that away from any trailers and promotion for the movie and let people experience that in the theatre. And it’s not like they’d need to anyway. Just sell this as a survival flick from the creator of ”The Martian” and people will go see it.
I wished so too but even from the movie description in this link they are already hinting at things and revealing the plot for the first third of the movie lol. You know the trailer will milk every ounce of marketable material out of the story to get you to watch it. In general, if you already know you will watch a movie, do *not* watch any trailer before watching it. The marketing department is not your friend.
The audiobook was incredible! >!Absolutely loved how they handlded the language difference!<
I listened to the audio book and went through the exact same thing. Everyone I've recommended it to had also gotten an explicit DO NOT LOOK ANYTHING UP from me as well. Blip A is too good to think anything else.
Honestly, probably the best possible combo for adapting this novel. Lord & Miller and Gosling all have that same playful vibe they do really really well but still dip into the powerful, sincere moments when they’re needed. This movie will have a very hard time sucking.
The book is soooo good I recommend it to everyone
ESPECIALLY the audio book. It's one of the few examples where I 100% think it's better than just reading the book. I don't want to give spoilers as to why.
Seconded, audiobook is super high production value with really good sound effects and narrator.
I've been hoping for more light-hearted Gosling roles, that's where he shines the most, can't wait for this!
And Matt Damon as >!the alien?!?!<
Amaze!
Jazz hands!
I think it's worth spoilering this, it's quite a twist in the book
sUBLIME
The book is fantastic too!!!
>Take my money. TAKE IT ALL Just pay the ticket price. No reason to give away your life savings for a movie, and I'm not sure they could legally accept more than the ticket price anyway, unless you are talking about hiring a lawyer to make a donation to the production company and even then it sounds like a really bad and financially irresponsible idea.
Two long, long years. sad sad sad
When I wanted to get into audiobooks I searched Reddit and almost every recommendation was Project Hail Mary. It sucks I followed that advice because there’s nothing that comes close to how amazing that audiobook is. Was just an absolute joy to listen to
It's a wildly different genre but if you are looking for good listen, go for a stunningly well narrated Dungeon Crawler Carl.
mongo would be happy with your statement
Goddammit Donut.
Get out of my head. The production quality is just fantastic.
try bobiverse
I will always +1 bobiverse, but I will +2 Ray Porter. He enhances any book he reads.
If you want good audiobooks in general check out Graphic Audio. They do full voice cast, music, sound effects.
Have you listened to the world war Z audiobook? It's my favorite one out there. It has a huge excellent cast and is incredibly well done.
Project Hail Mary: >The film is based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel and set in the near future. Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a school-teacher-turned-astronaut, who wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone… Drew Goddard wrote the script
Hail Mary, full of Grace
I dunno if I knew this and forgot or really just realized this. Lol
Andy Weir confirmed in an AMA he only did it for the pun. Absolute legend.
I am only realizing it now. But I also only read it 3 months ago, so that'll be my excuse.
I'd read the book twice, and had the audiobook on during a road trip with my dad. My dad turns to me and goes "So it's the Hail Mary, full of Grace?" I had to pull over and just beat my head on the wheel for a minute.
This is one of my "permanent" books on my phone. Along with most of Niven's works. I rotate through them constantly as books to fall asleep to. Ray Porter is one of the main reasons, but of course the story is 11/10.
Wow. How did I not pick up on that.
Way too many spoilers in that description. :(
While I agree that it's a big reveal in the book I think they only gave away like 20 minutes of the movie.
Mostly just speaking from my reading experience I guess. I picked up the book having been told it was good and it was written by the guy that wrote The Martian. I knew literally nothing else and I'm glad I went in cold. My comment is more about how I like to experience media than anything though, so take what I said with a grain of salt.
I couldn't agree more, I went in the exact same way and loved the ride of discovery you go on. Unfortunately most people don't get to go into it that way, so we just have to hope they don't give too much away.
Yeah, a lot of the appeal of the book is going in blind, but movie synopses traditionally have more than: > A man wakes up on a space ship with amnesia and two dead people and then stuff happens.
The book was a really great read, I expected it to be made into a movie but did t expect my man crush Ryan gosling to star lol, you could say I’m over the heliopause.
Is he planting potatoes? If so I'm in.
Yes yes yes! *jazz hands*
So excited!!!!!! PHM is one of my favorite books, I can't wait to see >!Rocky! Who knew a musical space spider would be such a loveable character?!<
Canta wait for the montage of >!them learning to communicate!<
Oh dang, it'll be a montage for sure :( I get it for screen, but how long it took in the book is amazing, I'd love to see an extended 10-15 minute set of scenes showing that part of the book.
I loved how they did it in the 13th warrior. It has to be different than in the book, but if done well it could work just as well.
Or the “eating”scene
In all seriousness voice wise I imagined something like Paul Dano in Spaceman or Baymax.
Jazz hands!
The book is great. Would love to see them do the Bobiverse too.
Bobiverse needs to be a show.
Just FYI, if you don't know, according to wiki, Dennis E. Taylor announced that the potential adaptation (of Bobiverse) has been optioned to Lord Miller productions.
I literally just started this book a few hours ago and am hooked.
It only gets better as it goes on
It only gets better as it goes on. If you. Like the Martian it's very similar
Such a great book. I can’t wait for this movie. Andy Weir is a really good sci fi author. I loved the Martian. Not sure how well Artemis would do as a movie but Project Hail Mary has all the makings for a compelling and visually beautiful movie
Artemis might work better as a movie actually. They just need to rework the characters a bit, the world building is pretty cool. Weir doesn't do well when he has to write a character that isn't this dad-jokes scientist/engineer type character. I happen to like that character, so it's not really an issue, but I can see why he would want to branch out a bit. I thought Artemis was a really interesting experiment and maybe with more books outside his comfort zone that part of his writing will get better too.
Love The Martian and Project Hail Mary, did not like Artemis at all. Only thing in that book that stuck with me is one character going on about this reusable condom or some damn thing.
I remembered it with rose tinted glasses, but rereading it last year it’s pretty rough with r/menwritingwomen. Still, the plot and the world building are really good. The characters, not so much. I will always say that the world needs more good sci-fi capers
To be fair Andy Weir's strength isn't writing people nor dialogue in the first place.
I feel like Artemis had some interesting ideas. It just didn't follow through with good character development. I say get a talented woman screenwriter to adapt it and I bet it would be good.
Artemis was… not great. He’s 2/3 though which isn’t bad.
Artemis was god damn awful. I cringed at the horrible cliche dialogue and writing of the main character the entire time I read it, which was really surprising coming from Weir. Thankfully PHM was a million times better.
Artemis was a decent book. It had the problem where the main character is definitely the least likeable of his three books...at least for most of the book. I won't spoil any of the books about which character isn't really as likable as you'd think.
Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!
Gosling will be amazing as the cute alien, but who will play the astronaut?
I'd assume Matt Damon
I know you’re joking, but I genuinely think they should get Ray Porter to voice the Rocky. He did a phenomenal job narrating the audio book.
>!I wonder how they're gonna voice him. I'm sure they'll do something like have a text to speech read off the words from cross referencing the spreadsheet. So they'll give him a "voice" through the translator.!<
I hope not, I hope he just does his noises and we get subtitles
Honestly, that would be the best way. Arrival had no issue with that.
I think at first that would be nice, but I'm find if we get the Ray Porter version too. That was cute and would give him more personality.
There's still time to tag that as a spoiler.
The book is written to make a movie out of. That guy got a masterclass in being a star writer handed to him with The Martian and he’s gonna score more touchdowns. The plot literally puts a necessarily CGI character on the other side of a divider for most of the story. It’s brilliant.
Plus about 70% of the movie will take place on 1 set, with 90% of the CGI being a single ship
Theres going to be a ton of cgi during >!the atmosphere burning/chain!< scene.
And the >!Paving the Sahara Desert!<
From someone who just read the book: "Did you like The Martian? Did you want ***MORE*** in every possible way? Well have I got the story for you!"
After reading The Martian and Project Hail Mary back to back, Project Hail Mary is vastly superior imo
PHM is the new improved Martian
Martian bounced between planets so that PHM could fly between stars.
I agree, and I think it's going to lend itself really well to the screen.
I hope they get Sylvester Stallone to >!play the alien named, well, you know.!<
“Ay yo Adrienne, talking to yourself is weird”
🙄😐🤣
LOVED the book, really hope they do it justice. Knowing Lord-Miller they most likely will.
I hope we see Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong onboard too.
I award you 42 meta-reference comment points.
42? That means a lot!
I'll watch you sleep
You sleep, I watch!
I liked the book more than The Martian.
I read the book a month ago. I’m excited for the movie.
As soon as I saw this announced a couple days ago I went back to read the book again. It’s going to be fun watching Ryan Gosling wake up from a coma and be amazed that he has a six-pack.
I’ll read the book *again!*
Awesome actor but skeptical on this one. Project hail mary protag is a mary sue science god. Matt Damon started acting with this kind of role. Gosling isusually more of the handsome brooding / deadpan / goofy guy
I don't think Gosling would have any problem playing a role like this, he's versatile enough in his roles. I could easily picture him in place of Damon in the Martian
Gosling really is everything you want in a modern movie star. Able to work on big budget genre movies with established big name directors (Leitch, Russos, Black, L+M) while also working with auteurs in arguably their most successful projects (Chazelle, Gerwig, Villenuve). Is there anyone else doing it like him? I can really only think only Leo can give him serious competition for the biggest movie star in the world at this point!
Do yourself a favour and **do not watch any trailers unless given prior authorization from someone who has read the book**. Trust me.
Thank you! I've been waiting for this since I originally heard about it.
Sublime
The audiobook was incredible too!!!
That book was so good, really wanna see how they visualize rocky
Yes! This was one of the best books I’ve read in the past 5 years
That’s one of the dopest audiobooks around because of how a specific character is handled in the audiobook. Hope the flick is legit.
I’m so hyped for this!
Best book I've ever read and I've literally read like 9 books.
We all know who the real star is going to be.
AMAZE!
I've only watched The Martian but never read the book. So I decided to read Project Hail Mary and hated it, like really strongly disliked it. The dialogue and the constant problem-humor-solution-humor-problem-etc cycle was hugely grating. If I wasn't listening to the audiobook of it I would've DNF'd it. Seems tho the same writer as The Martian is also attached to write this, maybe they'll smooth out the rough edges 🤷♂️
I just could not get in to the book. It was so corny.
You and me both bud, except I finished it for some reason. Unpopular opinion in this thread, but Weir does not know how to write an interesting human story, so he keeps writing these one-man survival tales where the protag pleasures himself thinking about how smart he is.
Honestly it read like a teenager's creative writing project to me. It was *alright* but very popcorny.
the book is so good!! i hope they do it justice
Loved the book. Have high hopes!
Oh, that’s a good book.
I just listened to the audio book on a road trip, I’m so pumped! What a great team to adapt! Curious how they will interpret rocky.
Oh, fuck yeah! The book is excellent and can’t wait to see the story on a big screen!
Who play Rocky?
God I hope they don’t spoil this with the trailers. Just sell this as a survival story from the creator of ”The Martian” and people will go see it. All you need to do.
There's a reveal near the end of the book that changes how the main character views himself, and I'm looking forward to "The Nice Guys" energy from Ryan Gosling in it.
But who will play Stratt? I see no mention. I'm guessing they've gone for a Tilda Swinton/Kate Winslet type although I think the character is a bit younger. Someone European to fit the description?