r/ProjectHailMaryMovie

This is not about the book!

News on Project Hail Mary the movie is available for free streaming on Amazon Prime in the UK. Not sure about other countries.

I had an interesting thought just now. If both Erid and Earth noticed that Tau Ceti wasn’t dimming, and both Erid and Earth were populated by life seeded from Adrian, with complex societies… how many more were there that saw Tau Ceti, or better yet saw that Sol and 40Eridani were brightening back to normal levels.

So could there be potentially dozens of other alien civilizations in the local group, all descended from Adrian life, all coming to Sol and 40Eridani to ask for the solution? If I were an alien civilization, I’d go to the stars that were brightening again because that would imply life around their systems already figured the problem out.

What if in the sequel Grace decides to finally go back home in his old age, and Rocky and some other Eridians joined him, after expanding the ship with some Eridian biosphere attachments and larger fuel tanks, and on the way out of the 40 Eridani system they bump into more aliens from other systems and get sidetracked into helping them?

We could have a side plot of some Eridians who went to Earth to set up communications and an embassy or something long before Grace decided to set out, so they are already arriving when the story starts, and they have to deal with helping earth out of all the problems it’s gone through in the nearly 30 years of decreasing stability, as well as new aliens arriving at Earth to ask for help on top of everything else.

I doubt this is how a sequel would go but I thought it made for an interesting idea that seems plausible by the facts established in universe.

I put this as book discussion because I doubt a second movie will be made until a second book is released and Andy Weir has toyed with the idea, and I think this plot though unlikely works in the book setting as well, even if Grace would be like 70 by the time it was over.

Not sure if this is the place to be asking this but I figured it was worth a shot 🤞.

So I read the book way back and was so disappointed when the movie version of Grace didn’t use a cane because I use one and I’ve NEVER seen any other representation (non elderly) before or after. Aside from that one kid in roots of pacha I guess but that’s niche lol. Still absolutely love the film. Also super excited by how much popularity and fan merch its brought ! But now the popular interpretation of Grace doesn’t include his cane which is a bit disheartening 💀…

I’ve searched around quite a bit and not had any luck yet but I was wondering if anyone else has happened to find anything where he has one? Ideally a pin/badge or keychain that could put on my bag but I’d be pretty happy with anything.

*Ideally* not from America because the shipping is absurd to my area but I might just have to be willing to pay that in the end if that’s my only option :P…

So, Rocky gave Grace 2 million Kg of fuel to help him get back to earth but that also meant Rocky’s trip would take an additional 6 years for himself. So when Grace decides to save Rocky instead of going home, how come they were able to still reach Rocky’s planet on the Hail Mary when Grace only had enough fuel to make a 4 year journey (to earth), never mind a 6 year one to Rocky planet.
Apologies if I’m sounding dumb, it just didn’t make sense to me, unless I’m missing something obvious.

Thank you

I was listening to music and I realized the song called The Scientist by Coldplay was similar to Grace’s story. I went onto YouTube to see if there was a video but there wasn’t any. Could someone make a video called Project Hail Mary x The Scientist and it is like a montage, that would be awesome

Was just thinking about it yk?

I just watched the movie and was wondering if there are some answers to these plot questions.

When they discovered the Petrova line and then discovered that it was a flow of astrophages from the Sun to Venus. And then Grace discovers that the astrophages are traveling to the CO2-rich atmosphere of Venus (bypassing Mercury) to breed and then return.

I would have liked some scenes discussing some alternatives to the plan that they eventually settled on. The Petrova line starts off thin and then arcs towards Venus where it spreads out. Once Grace killed one astrophage and then figured out its composition. Why was it not simpler to figure out an infrared-invisible filter to kill astrophages before they reached Venus or before they returned to the sun? They could have dismissed it by saying they couldn't filter them fast enough or the filter would get saturated too quickly or anything. But the movie didn't attempt to convince us that discovering a new organism, figuring out how it breeds, it being able to breed quick enough to fuel a starship with new engines invented and manufactured to take advantage of its high energy-density, and then make a 12 year trip to a distant star was a more feasible plan.

Why was it planned as a suicide mission due to the engines not having enough macrophages to return to Earth? Was it not possible to plot a course that included refilling astrophages as fuel when they showed the galaxy was littered with Petrova lines? They knew that the destination star had its own Petrova Line? Why wasn't it incorporated into the plan to refuel from those astrophages before returning home?

Did they need to collect a large sample of the amoebas that kill the astrophages and send them back? It was never going to be enough to replicate the population of amoebas required on Venus, so why wouldn't they just sequence the organism and transmit that data back to scientists on Earth instead? Or just use the amoebas to understand how to metabolize the astrophages and then send that mechanism back to Earth. They already had to evolve a strain that could survive the Nitrogen content of Venus' atmosphere, but what about it's gravity or radiation? The solution is going to end up highly-customized anyway. When the amoebas arrive on Earth, it's said that they will start growing more of them anyway. Wouldn't the data be enough (kind of like in another show where the instructions for a virus are sent to earth and then scientists on the ground create them). This felt like a contrivance to make that dangerous amoeba-collection mission happen.

For starters both the creators/producers/directors and Gosling deserves Oscars for what they have managed to achieve.

The way the flash backs were staggered and the build up to the ending was perfect.

Both the directing and Gosling managed to make me feel so much emotion throughout the film....mainly towards rocky.

The way there friendship blossomed was brilliant. When Rocky saved Grace I was hoping that he survived and was happy and smiled when he did.

When Gosling realised he then needed to go and save rocky from their own discovery was like a full circle moment as well.....also glad he did.

I also think the ending was both excellently thought out and executed, seeing them both having a happy ending, walking on the beach and Grace being a teacher again was heart warming and brought another smile to my face.

I don't know if it was intended to have this kind of message, but how much it got me to care about something so different from a human was eye opening and inspiring.

I know there are plenty of films out there that try to normalize us about differences and love people/things for who or what they are, but I think hail Mary did it in a genius way and so much more impactful.

Also who doesn't want a friend like Rocky.

It's called the "Salvastra AU" and its made by "Lutheban" on Tumblr and I love watching every new post so go show him some love!

I found out you can even talk to him on his profile by asking questions so yeah and also say that "salmonidxeridianslover" sent you because that's my Tumblr username.

Anyways bye!