{"id":26421,"date":"2026-05-18T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26421"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:02:50","slug":"project-hail-mary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/project-hail-mary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The entire room is filled with argon. Just try not to rip your suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Hail Mary<\/strong>, released in 2026<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"duration-200\" lang=\"en-US\">Ryland Grace wrote a paper in which he said that water wasn&#8217;t necessarily required for life. Now he&#8217;s teaching, because of the people he ticked off. But now the government wants him on their task force to investigate the Petrova Line between Venus and the Sun, because somehow the microorganisms are essentially eating the sun, which will cause catastrophe for humans on Earth. They find a bunch of solar systems have the same problem, but one mysteriously doesn&#8217;t. So a ship will be sent there, to investigate. When the scientist who&#8217;s supposed to dies, Grace is asked to join the mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/project-hail-mary\/\">the book<\/a>. The movie is faithful to the book to a large extent.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the best movies ever made.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gripping, it&#8217;s about how you do science, and it&#8217;s about first contact. The main character is funny and smart, and his new colleague is sincere and friendly.<\/p>\n<p>James Ortiz was the lead puppeteer and provided the voice for Rocky.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Ryan Gosling, Sandra H\u00fcller, and Ken Leung. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-lego-movie-2\/\"><strong>The Lego Movie<\/strong><\/a>). The majestic music is by Daniel Pemberton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The entire room is filled with argon. Just try not to rip your suit.&#8221; Project Hail Mary, released in 2026 Ryland Grace wrote a paper in which he said that water wasn&#8217;t necessarily required for life. Now he&#8217;s teaching, because of the people he ticked off. But now the government wants him on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-26421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26425,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26421\/revisions\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}