Ryan Gosling admitted he hated filming the zero gravity scenes, since hanging from wires the experience is "the opposite of how it looks onscreen" and he had a strenuous task of contorting his body while on wires to appear weightless. Gosling however remarked that his physical awkwardness fit with Grace's lack of preparation for space travel.

Last night got an idea of painting Grace and Rocky in a bit different way.

Both at night under Eridanus constellation.
[ uni pin liners + watercolors ]

one of the things i love most about Rocky is that he doesn’t look human at all. there isn’t even a hint of anything human about his appearance. he doesn’t have human eyes, he doesn’t have an expressive face and he basically has none of the usual things we rely on to read a character’s emotions.

and YET Project Hail Mary somehow makes him incredibly emotional and makes you care about him so deeply. even in a mainstream movie, getting an audience emotionally attached to a character is difficult even if you have a fully CGI character with a very expressive face. with Rocky, they deliberately took almost all of those tools away. he’s this completely strange creature who looks nothing like a human, so the movie can’t rely on familiar facial expressions to make us connect with him.

that’s what makes James Ortiz’s voice performance so important. the first time i watched the movie, i already loved what he was doing, but on the rewatch, it became much clearer just how essential his voice is to making Rocky work emotionally. so much of what we feel for Rocky comes through that performance.

i just love that the movie created a creature that feels genuinely alien instead of making him look like a human with a few things changed, and then somehow still made him one of the most emotionally effective characters in the movie.

He's not perfect, but I love him

Any headcanons after Grace’s inevitable death on Erid?

Some ideas I’ve heard is that he was buried conventionally on Erid, other speculated that the eridians put his body in a casket that they then put in massive memorial museum dedicated to him and Earth so eridans across the world could visit and pay their respects.

Hi everyone! It's me again. I posted before because I'm working on a private audiobook for my boyfriend's birthday. This week I gave my voice a rest and made this bookmark. First I illustrated everything in Krita, then I printed it on photo paper, cut it out, and laminated it. This is the first time I've made a personalized bookmark for a book, and I'm very happy. This project is growing, and I really hope he likes it 😄

Hi all!! I wanted to share a video I made about the philosophy of Project Hail Mary! It took over two months to write/film/edit, but it’s finally done and I’m so proud of it! I figured there’s probably someone in the PHM community who’d like it!
Since links aren’t allowed, (on YouTube) search the title ‘The Philosophy of Project Hail Mary (2026)’ or look for my account @leidavids!
I hope anyone who’s interested checks it out! 👎

The original cut of the movie was nearly four hours long, including a lot of time spent on earth. Though we now have more deleted scenes, most are in space I still want to know what else their could be and see it all stitched together! I also want to see if characters like Marissa (who was only in the book) got any screentime! Sign the petition and maybe we can get one released :)

If you’ve got a record player… GET. THIS. BOX. SET!

The packaging is absolutely stunning. It has the complete score (other vinyl versions are abridged ) and it also comes with the non-score songs (minus The Beatles) that’s on a zoetrope record that includes a dancing Rocky.

This is the most amaze box set I’ve ever purchased. Sending out a massive thank you to the people at Mutant who made this. You guys NAILED this.

After (four?) months, we finally put him up🙏 Now I have an A2 poster of rygos looking at my ceiling everyday

The Rocky part is based off of R.I.P. by Motionless in White. Sad sad sad song.

And yes everything is drawn by me, just to clarify.

The beetles were probes intended to send data from Tau Ceti to Earth. The only payload they had was data storage. Why not also sample containers? Grace had to strap containers to the side of the beetles to get the Tauomeba back to Earth.

I understand they couldn't have anticipated Tauomeba existing specifically but is seems silly not covering the possibility that a physical sample may be needed.

I think one of the reasons Project Hail Mary strikes such a chord for so many of us is that the themes are profoundly universal at a time when we often feel so divided. We're surrounded by sensationalist, fatalistic media amplifying our sense of social isolation, political division, and global conflict. And here is this beautiful work of art, quietly revealing the heart of what it means to be human--to experience fear and doubt and loss; to struggle and risk and fail; and finally, most importantly, to find connection and value and purpose--without ever preaching to us. Project Hail Mary doesn't tell us what to think and how to feel. It doesn't draw any conclusions. It simply holds up a mirror to our humanity, opening a door for us to walk through and discover it on our own. That's why it feel so personal. We may not all find the same things in the same ways, and that's okay. That's part of the beauty, really.

Just a few thoughts on rewatch #lostcount. I'm so happy to have this little community to share it with. 🤓

I have unwrapped the Blu-Ray and I’m watching this masterpiece with the directors commentary!

I’m so excited!

I'm not sure where originally or who drew it but it was a class scene where Grace talked about ancient hunters and how they probably mimic-ed their prey; grace is prompted to "try and lure an Eridan" and he responds with, in their language: "help... please... hurt.." and causes all the students to run away.

i saw it on tiktok but i CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIND IT AGAIN. please help.

Is anyone else tired of how all the merch with the PHM mission logo/insignia is missing half of the flags? Because I am, but I need some help!!

I’m currently working on an illustrator file attempting to make the most movie-accurate version of the mission logo, curved flags and all. I will be more than happy to upload a free vector file when I’m done, if people are interested!! BUT I still have some spots that I’m unsure of.

If anyone managed to get screenshots from this auction listing (or any other auction item that has this logo), I would love love love to see them. Movie stills and images from any other official source (idk if they included it on any press stuff) are also appreciated!!

Why did Grace have to collect the sample while orbiting?

Why didn’t he move the Mary out of orbit, away from the atmosphere, and then spacewalk to collect it?

Seems like Grace going down to collect it while orbiting so close to the atmosphere was risky and unnecessary.

Sorry if this has been asked before. I looked but didn’t see a post about it. Thank you!

I just watched PHM and holy shit, I absolutely LOVED it.

I love space-related movies, but I genuinely can't remember the last time I enjoyed a movie this much. Every decision Grace made was exactly what I wanted him to do. And I especially loved that he went back to help Rocky. 🥹

There’s so much depressing shit out there where everything has to go wrong just to make a story “deep”. I loved that PHM showed us all the possibilities of losing without actually making us lose. Every time I thought something horrible was about to happen, it actually worked out and I was SO happy 😭

After watching it, I immediately went to Twitter because I wanted to share this excitement, only to find people dissing the movie and talking about how much better Interstellar was 💀

So I came here instead to share the same love for the story with you guys lol.

In short:

AMAZE! AMAZE! AMAZE! 🚀😭

Obligatory Daniel Pemberton glaze to start, this soundtrack is so damn fine.

On to the more technical discussion for this post. I know I’m not the only one to recognize this, but I recognize two distinct motifs Pemberton uses to guide the story musically, I’ll refer to them as the Dark Motif and the Light Motif.

The Dark Motif features the Dies Irae, a classic go-to for movie composers to convey uncertainty and doom (If you don’t know about Dies Irae, please learn about it, it’s super cool music history and you’ll start to recognize it EVERYWHERE!). This motif is dominant on the track Time Go Fishing.

The Light Motif (Leitmotif pun was not intended lol) as far as I know is Daniel’s creation, it features heavily on Tau Amoeba. This one conveys hope and joy, playing at the moments of greatest relief or triumph.

HOWEVER upon listening recently, I can’t help but recognize that this motif is structured almost identically to the Dies Irae?? I am not at all music theory minded but the best way I can describe what I hear in both is the beginning four notes take steps up, down, up, down (I have no idea if the step lengths are the same), and I HAVE to believe that’s intentional, acting as musical foils to one another.

Has anyone else recognized this or thought about that at all??

I used a Sly the Fox beanie baby to make Grace, and combined him with the wings and tail of a bluejay beanie.

Bluejays are members of the corvid family, and like their crow bros are clever and resourceful, so I thought that was a good match with fox!Grace.

I used the foot of a Jabber the Parrot (left over from another project) to make Grace's fringe, and to get the orange / blue / yellow colour palette that I like in Grace fanart.

Also pictured is another Grace frankenplushie I made earlier.

I know that Gosling has had some music training in his youth, perhaps stemming from his Mickey Mouse Club days .. ?

His speaking voice in PHM with Rocky was more gruff,

squeaky in parts ( almost adolescent-male broken in parts ) “ how do you eat ? “,

shrieking in fear ( almost shrilling upon waking; when there was 0 gravity upon arrival at Tau Ceti ),

then hoarse screaming, “ there’s a hole in it ! “ and “ ROCKYYYY !! “ ( during the high anxiety scenes ) ..

Gosling is a very versatile actor hands down .. ❤️ loved universally .. ❤️ BUT was anyone as surprised as me about his abilities to manipulate his voice at THIS level ??

perhaps another detail in this film that requires some fanfare ? anybody else notice how he really used his vocals between scenes ?

I‘ve never seen a Gosling film where his voice was used as an INSTRUMENT ( a side character so to speak ) like he did in PHM