Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling

This was a fun book. Solid narrator on the audiobook. (Ray Porter)

Fucking love the audiobook. Listen to it so far four times. Plan on reading the novel this year (finally picked up a copy.) My worry is they will fuck this up like they did the Martain. Great novel, and also solid audiobook, listening to it now for like the 20th time. But didn't care for that PG13 movie.
Spoiler but the first sentence in the book got the word fuck in it. And Annie cursed up a storm in the book.
Edit: They better do Rocky I swear.
- The botched comical farce ending that he makes fun of in the book becoming the movie ending was offensive... I loved so much of the pieces but talk about a slap in the face.
  Also, removing the detail of Pathfinder failure so you have months of mental health issues... Damon did spectacular at emoting the strain in the moment he regains contact with the crew, but it felt disjointed without the context of zero contact and the desperation.
  Many of the actors were amazing, but Ridley screwed up bad.
Ray Porter stan checking in.
- Hi Stan. I meant to write you sooner, but I've just been busy.

Amaze!! Amaze!!

…I’m excited for this film, but so scared that it will be another enshitified movie of a great book with the story twisted and warped by producers and other interests.

Like Ready Player One turned out to be; utter garbage.

Ungh….

great book
Ready Player One
uh
- Admittedly the book is waaaaay better than the movie. Neither are great though.
I actually like the movie. It made the best out of the book, which is meh at best.
- I agree wholeheartedly. The book and movies are just vehicles for delivering nostalgic references, but while in the book 80% of those references were just listing off one thing after another, in the movie I could see and hear them, which makes it much better for that nostalgia.
- Yep. Book wasted time with unnecessary callback lists, obscure shows, and a hero that was kindof a jerk. The movie was fun - not deep or anything, it didn’t waste time though.
Same worried they will fuck it up. But just saw The Life of Chuck and they did a decent job of sticking with the story.
Ready Player One the movie wouldn't have been any better with him playing PacMan and Joust for hours or quoting Monty Python and War Games word-for-word.

Hoping they pull a switcheroo and gosling plays Rocky

Sylvester Stallone has signed on to reprise his role as Rocky
...I figured Rocky would be voiced by an array of theremins.
- Right but Hollywood so gosling does mocap and the voice is his but heavily vocodered thru the theremins.
  In all seriousness I would love to be wrong about this but I doubt hwood will allow rocky and the other eridians to have musical verbal language. That means subtitles, and Hollywood fucking hates subtitles.
Yes! I had Jon Hamm in mind for the lead while I was reading it. But, Gosling surprised me as Ken in Barbie so maybe he’ll be great in this too.
- IMO Gosling kinda reminds me of Brad Pitt in that he typically blends into his roles well.
Ok that would be funny.

I feel like Any Weir's name should be on this poster. He's a bigger draw than Gosling in my book.

Just Any ol' Weir?

Damn, I kept putting off reading it and they're already making it into a movie. At least now I have a deadline.

It’s a page turner and a pretty quick read!
- I was so sad at how fast it was over. Only took me about 8 hours from start to finish.
Just listen to the audio book. It's read by ray porter and he nails it.
- Seconded. Read it on my own first, ended up reading half of it out loud to my wife just because I was so tickled by it, then put it on for the whole family on a road trip. Such a great story, everyone loved it.

Fist my bump!

That's a pretty ambitious book to turn into a movie. Hope they don't go too "Hollywood" on it, and respect the source material.

The Martian was almost entirely internal monologue and they did a faithful job adapting it. It wasn’t as good as the book, but still great.
I can definitely see some difficult moments to adapt on the big screen, but I have faith
They already had to cut out a big chunk from the middle of The Martian (which then broke the I've got no radio, so no one can give me permission to board, so I'm now the first space pirate joke, which they decided to keep anyway), and Project Hail Mary is a much longer book - it's about as thick as Dune, which became two movies and still cut loads. Something major will have to change if they're going to give it an acceptable runtime.
- No it isn't, Hail Mary is 180 pages shorter than Dune
  Dune is way more dense than Hail Mary, Weir very clearly writes his books to become movies. Way more dialog, much simpler problems, and clearly defined acts translate much easier to the screen
  They'll obviously have to cut some parts, but having read/seen The Martian I don't think anything of major importance was lost
- It's nowhere near as complicated as dune though. They can cut out a lot of the flashbacks.

That was a fun, very light sci fi novel. I hope they don't fuck it up too bad. I hope Gosling plays Rocky, bwahaha

I hope Gosling plays Rocky
- Is it weird that this is kinda how I imagined him in the book?

Cautiously hopeful.

That's an incredible poster. Hope they do it justice.

Well.. right off the rip, the suit is wrong...
- Eh that's not an important detail for me

"jazz hands"

Wait this is gonna be a movie?!?!

Gosling is not a grace... really hope they do great but knowing hollywood they're gonna turn grace into some hero that was always a hero vs what he was in the book a scared scientist that just loved knowledge.

Gosling personally wanted to make this movie cause he loves the story. I don't think he's too far off, and rather have someone who cares.
- I really hope he keeps to the story, cause the martian was ok but they holywooded the shit out of it, and removed a lot of the stuff that made it a great book.
I thought the same thing but on my last run through the book. Grace describes himself as being super buff, like really buffed. So guess it tracks. But I do hope they stick to how he really was. I am more interested in the Stratt character will be portrayed?
- Naa he says in the beginning he has muscle tone still, not buff at all. He's wondering why he has muscle when he first wakes up. The dude is a teacher and a self described coward. Plus spoilers at the end of the book I won't say here.

That would be a great mobile wallpaper without the text.

The book is so good, I don't know if I wanna see the movie.

I love this book! I was hoping they'd try to adapt it into a movie! I hope it'll be good. Very exciting!

Filmed "for" IMAX?

if you want to have a proper imax experience, you need to shoot a movie with that intent.
That's what they are saying here.
Other releases will have a very different screen ratio and viewing experience.
It does suggest that the space scenes will be quite glorious
- But did they shoot with IMAX cameras?
  They usually say it's filmed "in" IMAX.

Everyone working on this behind the scenes has a really fantastic track record. Cant wait.

This guy is a billionaire btw

Edit: I don't want movies and don't know the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.

?
Looks like Andy Weir is worth 50 million?.
That makes him a milli-billionaire.
If he was 8000 times more successful, he could join the ranks of those buying media outlets and elections
All that to say, I don't think Andy is the problem, Jeff.
(I am humorously implying that I have discovered Jeff Bezo's personal Lemmy account.)
Which guy? Gosling is at 70M and Weir at 10.
How dare he do what he loves and get recognition and money from it! Burn him!
Edit: I've been proven wrong by multiple people so I'll defend myself by saying I'm ignorant and have no idea what I'm talking about.
Fixed your edit for you.