PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer 2025

[Doc_Klueless]

This is my daughter's current favorite book. She's so excited that she's acting like I did when Star Wars first hit theaters.

Difference is that I was 11 and she's 27. Ha!

 

[Stalker0]

Continuing the fine tradition of Armageddon that's its easier to train non-astronauts to be astronauts than teaching astronauts other stuff

 

[Reef]

Heh. Well, at least in Armageddon, you could squint and have it make sense. If you buy the premise that drilling was more art than science, and all they had to do was basically learn to put on a spacesuit.

I don’t know any more about this one than what they showed in the trailer, but I have a hard time imagining that out of an entire planet, we didn’t have a molecular biologist (or what have you) that was more qualified than a random school teacher…

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Continuing the fine tradition of Armageddon that's its easier to train non-astronauts to be astronauts than teaching astronauts other stuff

Hopefully, they make it clear in the movie that he wasn't on board to do any astronauting and that he's just a passenger surrounded by astronauts.

Basically, he's a specialist passenger who was intended to be kept alive and functioning by the rest of the crew so he could concentrate on the other problem that's killing earth.

 

[Umbran]

Continuing the fine tradition of Armageddon that's its easier to train non-astronauts to be astronauts than teaching astronauts other stuff

In this case, three is justification for it in the story.

 

[payn]

Heh. Well, at least in Armageddon, you could squint and have it make sense. If you buy the premise that drilling was more art than science, and all they had to do was basically learn to put on a spacesuit.

I don’t know any more about this one than what they showed in the trailer, but I have a hard time imagining that out of an entire planet, we didn’t have a molecular biologist (or what have you) that was more qualified than a random school teacher…

Oh im guessing its the super smart and capable person who always underachieves until the moment of existential crisis kinda things.

 

[Umbran]

Hopefully, they make it clear in the movie that he wasn't on board to do any astronauting and that he's just a passenger surrounded by astronauts.

He's there to be a mission specialist. Then, like in The Martian, things go pear shaped, and he has to do things he's not trained to do.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Oh im guessing its the super smart and capable person who always underachieves until the moment of existential crisis kinda things.

Not quite. He screws up a lot and needs the help of Rocky on many occasions.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

He's there to be a mission specialist. Then, like in The Martian, things go pear shaped, and he has to do things he's not trained to do.

Yup. The book makes it abundantly clear. Hopefully, the movie does, too.

Should be an enjoyable few hours.

 

[Vael]

I really enjoyed the book, looking forward to the movie. They've redesigned a lot of stuff, but that's cool.