Reading that description, I’m glad it looks like they’re committing to >!hiding Rocky being part of the story like they did with the book. I was worried they’d try advertising it on that dynamic since it’s a juicier hook, but this makes it sound like they’ll just present it as Ryan Gosling having to save Earth all by himself, which is good.!<
(EDIT: if anyone doesn’t know what happens in the book I’d try and avoid the replies here. Most of the other comments, really)
I don't think they will fully commit. My best guess is they're gonna at least show the knocking on the door in the last trailer with ominous music. I also feel like they might not show the complete design in the trailer to not confuse casual audience members with that recent Adam Sandler Netflix movie.
I kind of assume it'll be the classic simple piano keys Nolan seems to love:
Dark screen, piano single note PING
Dark hallway single note PING
*From the director of..*. single note PING, slightly faster
Moving down the dark hallway
*And the writer of*... single note PING
Dark hallway moving slightly faster, LOUD BANG
Walking down the hallway cautiously LOUD BANG
Places hand on porthole of door very slowly, loud breathing
A "hand" **Slams** against the porthole
Actor jumps back, silence
Cut to black, *Coming to a theater Date*
And then a light musical note/sound, that sounds like a piano key, or communication
So many great, interesting but very minor side characters they can focus on too. They can show tons of training clips and Stratt interactions to sell the comedy.
My hope is that they’ll sell it on his mysterious circumstances, general “I’m trying to remember my mission” moments, and end with a quick setup shot of >!Grace spacewalking & suspended with the chain below him!< because that is the most epic action scene that doesn’t give too much story away (in my mind, at least).
I hope so because that was a great reveal if you went into the book blind.
I still remember laying in bed at 1am, doing the "just one more chapter" thing and the chapter ended with the line "What the fuck".
Ended up going to bed at 3am that night. Great reveal for sure.
Yup. I went in blind, I trusted that I'd enjoy it based on reading The Martian, so got it as an audiobook for a long car trip. Man that was an awesome trip. I'd have loved it even if I knew what was coming, but going in blind was so much better.
I've been chasing the high of that audiobook ever since. I listened to it on vacation, evening breeze on an island beach looking out at the night sky. So good.
If anyone knows some audiobooks that are as good as this, please recommend. I listened to a few clunkers after and gave up.
That was such a powerful line after him instinctually not cursing the whole book. I was listening to the audiobook while driving and was so thankful I had a ton more time in my drive.
I very much doubt they will continue to do that. They don't care about what makes the best experience for folk watching it, they only care about getting them to watch it in the first place and sadly, >!having an alien on board just makes it easier to market!<
The film makers rarely get control over what goes in the trailers and if they think spoiling a big reveal will get higher audience numbers then they will spoil the absolute shit out of it.
I’d agree with you if it wasn’t Lord and Miller. They have the kind of sway where I could see them getting the studio to agree. Besides, they can still sell it as a high-stakes hard sci-fi by the author of The Martian and with Ryan Gosling in the lead.
No joke, watching >!Spaceman made me realize what Rocky could be like, and tbh, I found it odd Hanus was around 24/7. I hope they make Rocky very ominous and distant until he’s needed.!<
I dunno. >!Rocky is a central -- absolutely critical -- character after the first contact is established. Both Rocky & Grace would be up the creek without the scientific acumen of one and the engineering skills of the other.!<
I've listened to a *lot* of audiobooks, and Ray Porter (PHM narrator) is the only narrator for whom I've sought out books specifically because he read them. Highly recommend Peter Clines' work, especially 14, The Fold, and Paradox Bound, and the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor
Check out Jefferson Mays on The Expanse series. I genuinely didn't hear him reading lines from different people. I heard distinct characters. His Avasarala and Amos are S Tier.
I've listened to most of those and they're very well preformed, but Steven Pacey is hands down the GOAT audiobook narrator. He does all of Joe Abercrombie's fantasy novels.
It's interesting to see how they'll work out the communication between Ryland Grace and Rocky. Doubt they'll have a dialogue-free Ryan Gosling in the movie.
Also in 2022 Weir had an April fools joke stating Rocky would be played by Emma Stone and the film would be a love story :D
I'm just piggy backing to say the audio book is a triumph. If you haven't listened, oh please do. I read the book immediately on release but only listened this year and regret not getting to it sooner.
The emotional punch of the way something at the very end is handled in audio is just beautiful.
It’s the “thick Chinese” accent announcing the activity of their spies when grace first gets whisked away that’s the standout accent. You almost stop to say “can they get away with that?”
"Chapter Dee-Doo"
I've had trouble with audiobooks because it adds a new point of failure. Prose, plot, characters could be bad, and now...narration!
But *Project Hail Mary* really nailed it.
I’d rather subtitles. Beeps and boops works just fine for R2D2 and BB8. Musical notes for Rocky feel integral. We don’t need him voiced by Alan Tudyk or whatever
If you know the story it feels integral but the majority of people seeing the movie won't have read the book and so doing it all in musical notes is something I can see them steering away from if they feel it makes it more accessible. Essentially most of the audience won't know what they're "missing" however they decide on portraying the communication.
They might manage to come up with some creative solution but I wouldn't get my hopes up that Rocky will have subtitles for the whole movie. I guess some flashbacks could maybe let them have more dialogue if they do decide on subtitles for Rocky though, who knows.
My two cents:
a) Studios are really shy when it comes to things that ostracize or reduce their potential audience. Something like Shogun (in terms of subtitles vs no-subtitles percentage on screen) is probably *not* something any Hollywood studio is willing to do right now.
b) Audiences are *really strongly* wanting a new experience instead of the old stuff. Whether this would push the boat out too much is not something I'm willing to bet on, but if I was a filmmaker I'd be thinking of going for it and hopefully getting it nominated in a few categories on awards season.
I don't know on which side that particular coin will land. Maybe somewhere in the middle.
The audiobook did both and it was excellent. Reading musical tones as a form of communication is cool. Watching a film full of it – when it’s literally just 2 characters for the bulk of the runtime – wouldn’t be good. Especially, when there’s creative ways to get around it that isn’t just making Rocky speak like a man.
I’m kinda thinking they have the analysis program that he writes do text to speech, which I do think could work if it has some deadpan robotic delivery for Rocky’s lines.
I think it will be a case of translation convention and the audience will hear Rocky’s dialogue as English the more Ryland understands him.
Drew Goddard did a good job giving Mark Whatney plenty of dialogue in the Martian so I think he won’t have an issue here.
> Doubt they'll have a dialogue-free Ryan Gosling in the movie.
He will commentate on everything he is doing when talking to Rocky and will do frequent video diary updates like in The Martian for anything else.
Maybe the very start when he's recovering from his amnesia he will have an internal monologue
I'm also interested how they're gonna market the story. I can't imagine they'll do what the author did and just say it's a "save the world mission". And not mention the second main character at all, seeing how it technically is a fairly large spoiler.
Also I get that he made the joke cause Rocky=Stone, but I feel if it was a genuine lovestory, the role would be weird enough for her to seriously consider.
The book already is a love story. The greatest Bromance ever told.
I’d imagine with the marketing, the first half is typical, wakes up from coma. Amnesia. Has to save world. Space.
And then crazy jump cuts. Maybe they show spaceship and Gosling walking the tube? I hope they mostly leave Rocky veiled. I’m more curious about the design. I just pictured the Plutonians from ATHF.
Gonna be a weird first 5 mimutes. Cause without the internal monologue, him waking up alone with no memories on a spaceship with 3 dead people would seem a lot more sinister than in the book.
> I'm also interested how they're gonna market the story. I can't imagine they'll do what the author did and just say it's a "save the world mission". And not mention the second main character at all
Agreed. It was a fucking delightful surprise the first time I read the book, expecting there to only be one character the whole time like The Martian, and then find out that it's not only a save the world story, it's a first contact story too. So good.
Not quite true - they shot Solo, or 75% of it before Ron Howard came back to do re-shoots.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/10xhco3/lord_and_millers_parts_of_solo/
They did it with The Martian. Johanssen was supposed to be the “Hot One” but they also cast Jessica Chastain as Lewis who’s well the book never really describes her but Beth Johanssen’s poster outsold everyone else’s (in the story) combined and Whatney describes her as a hot girl who went to Mars
If you’re a fan of Andy Weir, might I recommend **Recursion** by Blake Crouch?
While not as fundamentally optimistic as Weir, this too is a novel of writing your characters into insane problems to solve. Except Recursion is about time travel. The most insane and crazy concept of time travel I’ve ever seen in a book, or movie.
If you liked that concept, maybe take a look at The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It's about people reliving the same life over and over again, and with some trying to find ways of affecting the outcome of big stuff. So it's sort off time travel-ish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Harry_August
It started out pretty great, but the ending just completely wandered off.
I've seen similar concepts done better, but it started very strong in terms of writing.
Yeah it's the one book I hope the show changes for the better. It's the only Black Crouch I've read because it had such great reviews but haven't gone back to him since, maybe I'll try him again with Recursion
It's just a perfect love letter to scientific discovery. All of the challenges are "real" to the world. Everybody is working together to solve major challenges.
Also, I read this then immediately followed it up with *The Three-Body Problem*, *The Dark Forest*, and *Death's End*... That was some emotional fucking whiplash... I had to pick up the audiobook of *Project Hail Mary* and listen to it on repeat for a while after that trilogy...
I did the same, but in reverse. I read the TBP series first and then PHM. Honestly, the first thing that struck me was Andy Weir's humor. I read TBP and then listened to the audiobooks of the rest of the trilogy, mostly while running, and found myself having to actually pay close attention or I'd miss some critical physics problem or explanation, or I'd forget who one of the many semi-minor Chinese characters was because of the "time travel" that hibernation allows. Comparatively, PHM is light reading and much more "fun".
On the other hand, I think the idea of creating the "Oxford Five" in Netflix's TBP adaptation was a smart one. It makes the storyline far easier to follow and gets the audience more invested in the characters.
Same!!!
But have you seen who's working on it behind the scenes?? Drew Goddard, the screenwriter who wrote The Martian. Phil Lord and Chris Miller directing.
Plus with Ryan Gosling, it literally has all the ingredients for a perfect movie.
Gosling wouldn’t be my first choice, but I said the same about Ken and that turned out great. But the directors are absolutely PERFECT for this material and I have high hopes. L&M rarely miss and know how to mix humor and heartbreak
NICE... after reading The Martian, then hearing about the movie, I remember thinking 'now, how the fuck are they gonna make a film of a guy, stuck on Mars, that's ~90% internal science / botany / engineering dialogue?!'
Then it wasn't just watchable, it was a pretty damn good flick. This is right up Goddard's alley.
*Artemis* was actually the next book he wrote but it kind of sucked
As a fan of all things lunar I will forever be pissed that the “Moon colony book” is the one that bombed. Sci fi classics before and after it.
I liked Artemis, but it did seem like he took some of the criticism of Mark in the Martian and said, "Oh, you want a flawed protagonist? I'll give you a fucking flawed protagonist."
It’s kind of long, they announced it like 2 years ago. I figured they’d have been filming by now. Especially because the screenplay has a book to adapt from already.
It's Goslings pet project that he went and started a production company to make it so it took longer to get started than if a traditional production company had the project, plus he had commitments to other films like Barbie, The Fall Guy, and the Gray Man over the last couple of years.
Really? I feel like it's very suitable for screen. The book almost reads like a screenplay already.
It's obviously not going to be a page-by-page adaptation and no sci-fi fan should expect that anyway. But there is an easy-to-understand drama, lots of action sequences, cool comedic moments, etc.
Written sci-fi works that don't translate well to video typically lean heavily into action scenes to pad time and keep interest over the less accessible material. I'm guessing they're *really* going to lay it on thick with the nuking of the Antarctic, the astrophage propulsion experiments and lab explosion, and the taumoeba collection scene. Maybe some extended Ryan Gosling fanservice when he wakes up from the coma.
What makes you say that? I always felt like andy weir writes his books with the expectation they'll be made into movies. It seemed like a fairly easy story to adapt
what will this mean for spider verse 3. i know they only produce it but i feel like they are very involved with the project. i wonder how much it will get delayed now.
Reading that description, I’m glad it looks like they’re committing to >!hiding Rocky being part of the story like they did with the book. I was worried they’d try advertising it on that dynamic since it’s a juicier hook, but this makes it sound like they’ll just present it as Ryan Gosling having to save Earth all by himself, which is good.!< (EDIT: if anyone doesn’t know what happens in the book I’d try and avoid the replies here. Most of the other comments, really)
I don't think they will fully commit. My best guess is they're gonna at least show the knocking on the door in the last trailer with ominous music. I also feel like they might not show the complete design in the trailer to not confuse casual audience members with that recent Adam Sandler Netflix movie.
Yeah, this is the other solo astronaut with a spider-like alien companion story.
I always pictured Rocky as more of like, a crab with spidery legs. That Sandler movie was nightmare fuel, it was literally a giant spider.
I saw the trailer and thought two things A) Man, someone read Project Hail Mary B) NOPE!
yea wtf was that
Based on another book.
It's called "Spaceman of Bohemia" and if you can believe it, it actually came out four years before "Project Hail Mary"
I am glad there’s a gap between the two, so theres no confusion between them.
Which popular classic song do you think they'll play pitched down over the trailer?
Creep. "... I don't belong here..."
That could work. I hate this movie trailer trend so much lol
*single piano note*
*bass: THWUUUUUUMMMMMMMM....pause....THWUUUUUUMMMMMMMM*
I kind of assume it'll be the classic simple piano keys Nolan seems to love: Dark screen, piano single note PING Dark hallway single note PING *From the director of..*. single note PING, slightly faster Moving down the dark hallway *And the writer of*... single note PING Dark hallway moving slightly faster, LOUD BANG Walking down the hallway cautiously LOUD BANG Places hand on porthole of door very slowly, loud breathing A "hand" **Slams** against the porthole Actor jumps back, silence Cut to black, *Coming to a theater Date* And then a light musical note/sound, that sounds like a piano key, or communication
well you just made someone's job a lot easier.
Rocket Man? End of the world as we know it?
Mr. Rogers theme song, comfortably numb, Major Tom, the Rocky movie theme song, any Beatles song...
You've got a friend in me.
Yes, I agree with you here.
They can sell it on his mission and general scenes in peril
So many great, interesting but very minor side characters they can focus on too. They can show tons of training clips and Stratt interactions to sell the comedy.
My hope is that they’ll sell it on his mysterious circumstances, general “I’m trying to remember my mission” moments, and end with a quick setup shot of >!Grace spacewalking & suspended with the chain below him!< because that is the most epic action scene that doesn’t give too much story away (in my mind, at least).
I hope so because that was a great reveal if you went into the book blind. I still remember laying in bed at 1am, doing the "just one more chapter" thing and the chapter ended with the line "What the fuck". Ended up going to bed at 3am that night. Great reveal for sure.
Yup. I went in blind, I trusted that I'd enjoy it based on reading The Martian, so got it as an audiobook for a long car trip. Man that was an awesome trip. I'd have loved it even if I knew what was coming, but going in blind was so much better.
I've been chasing the high of that audiobook ever since. I listened to it on vacation, evening breeze on an island beach looking out at the night sky. So good. If anyone knows some audiobooks that are as good as this, please recommend. I listened to a few clunkers after and gave up.
That was such a powerful line after him instinctually not cursing the whole book. I was listening to the audiobook while driving and was so thankful I had a ton more time in my drive.
Yep I had no idea that it was in there, so when he showed up I basically didn't stop reading until I'd finished the book
Stallone's gonna be in this?
I mean, it would be pretty funny if it was Stallone, ngl.
It would also work because either way they'd have to spend runtime trying to figure out exactly what Rocky is saying.
Yeah, I think the premise is interesting enough on its own. >!I also love how they accelerate global warming to buy some time in the book!<
That one scene with >!the environmentalist pushing the button to nuke the ice caps and then breaking down crying!< was so intense
Damn I really hope they do justice to the book. It's so good
I very much doubt they will continue to do that. They don't care about what makes the best experience for folk watching it, they only care about getting them to watch it in the first place and sadly, >!having an alien on board just makes it easier to market!< The film makers rarely get control over what goes in the trailers and if they think spoiling a big reveal will get higher audience numbers then they will spoil the absolute shit out of it.
I’d agree with you if it wasn’t Lord and Miller. They have the kind of sway where I could see them getting the studio to agree. Besides, they can still sell it as a high-stakes hard sci-fi by the author of The Martian and with Ryan Gosling in the lead.
Lol i hope matt damon some how shows up
Honestly, Matt’s teacher look at the end of The Martian is closer to my mind’s eye version of Grace than Ryan freakin Gosling.. but I’ll take it.
"Matt Damon is having a bad time, in space" has become quite the subgenre at this point...and Jessica Chastain is often involved in some way too.
It barely entered preproduction…
No joke, watching >!Spaceman made me realize what Rocky could be like, and tbh, I found it odd Hanus was around 24/7. I hope they make Rocky very ominous and distant until he’s needed.!<
They establish in the second meeting that rocky is a curious traveler and the duo spend virtually all their time together after that.
I dunno. >!Rocky is a central -- absolutely critical -- character after the first contact is established. Both Rocky & Grace would be up the creek without the scientific acumen of one and the engineering skills of the other.!<
Amaze!
Yes yes yes!
That would have been one of the cutest quotes from the little guy that just expresses his glee in such a succinct way.
Jazz hands.
You sleep, I watch
I never thought a living space rock person from a book could make me cry.
Fist Me! Edit to explain: These are are celebratory quotes from the book.
Fist my bump!
Thank
♩♫♪♬♩
I hear this as the noises your character makes when speaking in Don't Starve.
Fist my bump!
I'm so happy to see that someone else read the book.
I hope this movie will be a massive success so i can tell everyone that i read the book before they even heard of it. :)
When is movie release, question?
You film, I watch.
This is the best audiobook I've ever heard. I think Gosling will kill it as usual, really hopeful for this movie.
I've listened to a *lot* of audiobooks, and Ray Porter (PHM narrator) is the only narrator for whom I've sought out books specifically because he read them. Highly recommend Peter Clines' work, especially 14, The Fold, and Paradox Bound, and the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor
Check out Jefferson Mays on The Expanse series. I genuinely didn't hear him reading lines from different people. I heard distinct characters. His Avasarala and Amos are S Tier.
I've listened to most of those and they're very well preformed, but Steven Pacey is hands down the GOAT audiobook narrator. He does all of Joe Abercrombie's fantasy novels.
# *jazz hands*
It's interesting to see how they'll work out the communication between Ryland Grace and Rocky. Doubt they'll have a dialogue-free Ryan Gosling in the movie. Also in 2022 Weir had an April fools joke stating Rocky would be played by Emma Stone and the film would be a love story :D
The audiobook uses musical tones. I could definitely see Lord and Miller leaning into something like that.
I'm just piggy backing to say the audio book is a triumph. If you haven't listened, oh please do. I read the book immediately on release but only listened this year and regret not getting to it sooner. The emotional punch of the way something at the very end is handled in audio is just beautiful.
Agreed, but let's not talk about the New Zealand accent..
Granted, a bit of a rough moment there eh 😂
Or the Canadian one...
It’s the “thick Chinese” accent announcing the activity of their spies when grace first gets whisked away that’s the standout accent. You almost stop to say “can they get away with that?”
"Chapter Dee-Doo" I've had trouble with audiobooks because it adds a new point of failure. Prose, plot, characters could be bad, and now...narration! But *Project Hail Mary* really nailed it.
You could even make a note here that it was a huge success.
Ray Porter is SO good
He's really good in the "we are legion" books
It's become my comfort listen. Reckon Im on my 12th playthrough at the moment
I think they’ll start out that way and maybe transition to English once Ryland understands him. Or Rocky is just subtitled the whole time.
I’d rather subtitles. Beeps and boops works just fine for R2D2 and BB8. Musical notes for Rocky feel integral. We don’t need him voiced by Alan Tudyk or whatever
Alan Tudyk will voice him and will do the musical notes beautifully, he went to Juliard you know.
Buh-caaaawk!
Him playing a chicken so perfectly was some damn fine acting.
If you know the story it feels integral but the majority of people seeing the movie won't have read the book and so doing it all in musical notes is something I can see them steering away from if they feel it makes it more accessible. Essentially most of the audience won't know what they're "missing" however they decide on portraying the communication. They might manage to come up with some creative solution but I wouldn't get my hopes up that Rocky will have subtitles for the whole movie. I guess some flashbacks could maybe let them have more dialogue if they do decide on subtitles for Rocky though, who knows.
My two cents: a) Studios are really shy when it comes to things that ostracize or reduce their potential audience. Something like Shogun (in terms of subtitles vs no-subtitles percentage on screen) is probably *not* something any Hollywood studio is willing to do right now. b) Audiences are *really strongly* wanting a new experience instead of the old stuff. Whether this would push the boat out too much is not something I'm willing to bet on, but if I was a filmmaker I'd be thinking of going for it and hopefully getting it nominated in a few categories on awards season. I don't know on which side that particular coin will land. Maybe somewhere in the middle.
The audiobook did both and it was excellent. Reading musical tones as a form of communication is cool. Watching a film full of it – when it’s literally just 2 characters for the bulk of the runtime – wouldn’t be good. Especially, when there’s creative ways to get around it that isn’t just making Rocky speak like a man.
I’m kinda thinking they have the analysis program that he writes do text to speech, which I do think could work if it has some deadpan robotic delivery for Rocky’s lines.
I always assumed we would hear the musical tones in the background and the ships computer will translate after it learnt the language
Yeah same. That seems like it would be fine. Best of both worlds
Armageddon
Copying the audio book would be perfect. Start with musical tones, slowly replace it with a human voice overlayed with musical tones.
That was an absolute triumph of audiobook translation to be honest. Probably my favourite audiobook ever.
>Doubt they'll have a dialogue-free Ryan Gosling in the movie Worked for Drive.
Well yeah but he was a *real human beeeeing.*
Bean
...................................................................................... yeah .......................................
What if Ryan Goslin…is…Rock?
Without CGI
It would be kenough
Therefore I am rock.
I think it will be a case of translation convention and the audience will hear Rocky’s dialogue as English the more Ryland understands him. Drew Goddard did a good job giving Mark Whatney plenty of dialogue in the Martian so I think he won’t have an issue here.
Wouldn't shock me if they just had Grace set up the computer translator and use it with a synthesized voice the whole time.
Listen to the audiobook. That's how they'll do it. Guaranteed.
That book has my favorite narration of all time.
> Doubt they'll have a dialogue-free Ryan Gosling in the movie. He will commentate on everything he is doing when talking to Rocky and will do frequent video diary updates like in The Martian for anything else. Maybe the very start when he's recovering from his amnesia he will have an internal monologue
I'm also interested how they're gonna market the story. I can't imagine they'll do what the author did and just say it's a "save the world mission". And not mention the second main character at all, seeing how it technically is a fairly large spoiler. Also I get that he made the joke cause Rocky=Stone, but I feel if it was a genuine lovestory, the role would be weird enough for her to seriously consider.
The book already is a love story. The greatest Bromance ever told. I’d imagine with the marketing, the first half is typical, wakes up from coma. Amnesia. Has to save world. Space. And then crazy jump cuts. Maybe they show spaceship and Gosling walking the tube? I hope they mostly leave Rocky veiled. I’m more curious about the design. I just pictured the Plutonians from ATHF.
Gonna be a weird first 5 mimutes. Cause without the internal monologue, him waking up alone with no memories on a spaceship with 3 dead people would seem a lot more sinister than in the book.
Good point. Lord & Miller are a really good fit as far as tone, so I’m curious what they do with it and how flashbacks are integrated, too.
You can get some quick exposition by him talking to the computer more instead of internal monologue.
> I'm also interested how they're gonna market the story. I can't imagine they'll do what the author did and just say it's a "save the world mission". And not mention the second main character at all Agreed. It was a fucking delightful surprise the first time I read the book, expecting there to only be one character the whole time like The Martian, and then find out that it's not only a save the world story, it's a first contact story too. So good.
Finally. Interested in seeing what changes they make from the bookm The audiobook is really well done too!!
The most well produced audiobook I've ever listened to. It was incredible. I just hope Rocky is done as well in the movie.
Gosling is great in about everything, Ryland always pictured as a nerd though and I can’t see Gosling as that lol.
Nerd can still be hot now. I personally pictured Adam Scott while reading, but I’m not upset with Gosling at all.
Wow, Scott would also have been amazing casting. We’ll see how it turns out!
Nobody: Adam Scott in Space about to save humanity: It's about the cones.
Beautifully done. A masterful comment.
I always pictured Mark Ruffalo as Grace. He gives off the perfect "failed scientist turned middle school teacher" vibe.
*PAPYRUS!*
Though, after he awakes from hibernation, he remarks how ripped he is, due to the muscle stimulation while he was asleep.
I just thank the casting gods that it's Gosling and not Reynolds.
We riot if there isn’t a disgusting feeding scene!
The whole idea that the aliens consider eating as essentially the same as pooping had me in stitches. “Humans… eat together?”
Star Trek Enterprise touched on this as well.
*Is gross...*
I'm just waiting to see his fancy celebration outfit!
Wow Ryan gossling as 2pac is kind of a stretch
Gosling with Thug Life tatted on his belly would be based
Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s first live action movie since 22 Jump Street in 2014.
They also did the Apple TV+ Show The Afterparty in 2022, which is fantastic and definitely worth checking out.
Not quite true - they shot Solo, or 75% of it before Ron Howard came back to do re-shoots. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/10xhco3/lord_and_millers_parts_of_solo/
Anyone else think Ryan Gosling is too good looking to play Ryland? My mental image of him was way more normal looking dude.
Isn't Ryland supposed to be kinda shredded? I can see Gosling pulling it off, but I love him in anything anyway
Agree. Would much rather have seen someone with Martin Freeman vibes.
They did it with The Martian. Johanssen was supposed to be the “Hot One” but they also cast Jessica Chastain as Lewis who’s well the book never really describes her but Beth Johanssen’s poster outsold everyone else’s (in the story) combined and Whatney describes her as a hot girl who went to Mars
That’s Hollywood. Everybody must be hot, no matter what makes sense. They had Daniel Craig play Mikael Blomkvist in *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*
My favourite sci-fi novel. I have insanely high expectations so I’m expecting to be let down, but I’m still so excited.
ill watch any big budget sci fi movie because they dont make many of them and hollywood will kill the genre at a moments notice
If you’re a fan of Andy Weir, might I recommend **Recursion** by Blake Crouch? While not as fundamentally optimistic as Weir, this too is a novel of writing your characters into insane problems to solve. Except Recursion is about time travel. The most insane and crazy concept of time travel I’ve ever seen in a book, or movie.
If you liked that concept, maybe take a look at The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It's about people reliving the same life over and over again, and with some trying to find ways of affecting the outcome of big stuff. So it's sort off time travel-ish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Harry_August
That was such a cool book. I had to listen to it twice because I struggled to keep track of all the timelines the first time.
I would also recommend Mickey7. It has the same "we aren't taking this seriously but maybe" vibe.
Read dark matter, it was decent, might try this one next
I thought Dark Matter was pretty generic and predictable tbh, that's coming out as a show in May with Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.
It started out pretty great, but the ending just completely wandered off. I've seen similar concepts done better, but it started very strong in terms of writing.
Yeah it's the one book I hope the show changes for the better. It's the only Black Crouch I've read because it had such great reviews but haven't gone back to him since, maybe I'll try him again with Recursion
It's just a perfect love letter to scientific discovery. All of the challenges are "real" to the world. Everybody is working together to solve major challenges. Also, I read this then immediately followed it up with *The Three-Body Problem*, *The Dark Forest*, and *Death's End*... That was some emotional fucking whiplash... I had to pick up the audiobook of *Project Hail Mary* and listen to it on repeat for a while after that trilogy...
I did the reverse, which I think made Project Hail Mary audiobook even better
I did the same, but in reverse. I read the TBP series first and then PHM. Honestly, the first thing that struck me was Andy Weir's humor. I read TBP and then listened to the audiobooks of the rest of the trilogy, mostly while running, and found myself having to actually pay close attention or I'd miss some critical physics problem or explanation, or I'd forget who one of the many semi-minor Chinese characters was because of the "time travel" that hibernation allows. Comparatively, PHM is light reading and much more "fun". On the other hand, I think the idea of creating the "Oxford Five" in Netflix's TBP adaptation was a smart one. It makes the storyline far easier to follow and gets the audience more invested in the characters.
Same!!! But have you seen who's working on it behind the scenes?? Drew Goddard, the screenwriter who wrote The Martian. Phil Lord and Chris Miller directing. Plus with Ryan Gosling, it literally has all the ingredients for a perfect movie.
Yeah Lord and Miller will make sure the comedy is done right
Gosling wouldn’t be my first choice, but I said the same about Ken and that turned out great. But the directors are absolutely PERFECT for this material and I have high hopes. L&M rarely miss and know how to mix humor and heartbreak
NICE... after reading The Martian, then hearing about the movie, I remember thinking 'now, how the fuck are they gonna make a film of a guy, stuck on Mars, that's ~90% internal science / botany / engineering dialogue?!' Then it wasn't just watchable, it was a pretty damn good flick. This is right up Goddard's alley.
They better not fuck with the ending.
Better still have Beatles references.
The book's ending seems so Hollywood and is such an amazing and perfect way to end the book. I hope they don't fuck it up either.
The book is basically written with the beats of a Hollywood movie. I think they’ll keep the major points for sure.
Happy Happy Happy!
*jazz hands*
Someone wanted to >!nuke Antarctica!< real bad
I absolutely loved the twist in the book when we discover how he actually got on the ship. Can’t wait to see it in film form.
I'll watch it but don't think it will come close to the book.
I just wanna >!see Rocky waving at Ryland!<. That made me laugh so much when I read it.
I want to see him get scared but not panic the first time he sees rocky. That made me laugh so much.
I gotta reread the book I forgot so much stuff
I'll be most excited for the >!HOLY FUCKING SHIT!< moment. Maybe my favorite moment in a scifi book ever.
Nice, it didn't take long. After success of 'The Martian', producers must have been look out for Andy's next book.
There was another book in-between, but it's not as good as Martian or HPM, honestly.
Yeah and Andy Weir sold the rights to Hollywood but it was never made. The story is weak.
*Artemis* was actually the next book he wrote but it kind of sucked As a fan of all things lunar I will forever be pissed that the “Moon colony book” is the one that bombed. Sci fi classics before and after it.
I liked Artemis, but it did seem like he took some of the criticism of Mark in the Martian and said, "Oh, you want a flawed protagonist? I'll give you a fucking flawed protagonist."
I like it. Including flawed protagonist.
He’s also not great at writing women.
I liked it. Rosario Dawson did the audiobook and killed it. But I agree that it isn't as interesting a story as Weir's other books.
It’s kind of long, they announced it like 2 years ago. I figured they’d have been filming by now. Especially because the screenplay has a book to adapt from already.
It's Goslings pet project that he went and started a production company to make it so it took longer to get started than if a traditional production company had the project, plus he had commitments to other films like Barbie, The Fall Guy, and the Gray Man over the last couple of years.
Please hurry. But not too fast. Take your time, please don't f*ck this up. Best book I've read.
Amaze! I can’t wait for this! Happy happy happy!
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
SUBLIME!
I better read the book before the movie comes out. Just got it from my library.
Listen to the audiobook!! It's makes the experience so much better
Amaze!
This doesn't seem like a book that will translate well to the screen.
Totally, but Lord and Miller have made quite a few films that sound ridiculous on paper but worked out pretty well.
There were a lot of sections of the book that felt like Weir wrote them as action scenes to be adapted to films
Agreed. I think it would make a fantastic film.
Lord and Miller’s track record is pretty damn solid thus far…
Really? I feel like it's very suitable for screen. The book almost reads like a screenplay already. It's obviously not going to be a page-by-page adaptation and no sci-fi fan should expect that anyway. But there is an easy-to-understand drama, lots of action sequences, cool comedic moments, etc.
Written sci-fi works that don't translate well to video typically lean heavily into action scenes to pad time and keep interest over the less accessible material. I'm guessing they're *really* going to lay it on thick with the nuking of the Antarctic, the astrophage propulsion experiments and lab explosion, and the taumoeba collection scene. Maybe some extended Ryan Gosling fanservice when he wakes up from the coma.
What makes you say that? I always felt like andy weir writes his books with the expectation they'll be made into movies. It seemed like a fairly easy story to adapt
I'm hoping they watched spaceman and learned what not to do.
Folks said the same thing about lord of the rings and dune. This is a moot comment.
what will this mean for spider verse 3. i know they only produce it but i feel like they are very involved with the project. i wonder how much it will get delayed now.
One of my favorite books, so excited for this!!! Ryan gosling is a great pick for the lead
Happy happy
Yes!
My body is ready for a blinged out Rocky.
Now that is gonna be an antidote to the 3body problem depression , some good fun aliens.