Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling
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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
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Hoping they pull a switcheroo and gosling plays Rocky
Sylvester Stallone has signed on to reprise his role as Rocky
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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….
I actually like the movie. It made the best out of the book, which is meh at best.
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This was a fun book. Solid narrator on the audiobook. (Ray Porter)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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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….
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.
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great book
Ready Player One
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Admittedly the book is waaaaay better than the movie. Neither are great though.
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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.
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?
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- 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
I said they're similar thicknesses because they're right by each other on my bookshelf and are similar thicknesses. I just looked inside for the page counts, and excluding appendices, maps and diagrams of spacecraft, my copy of Project Hail Mary (the original paperback, starting on page 3 and ending on page 476) is just 55 pages shorter than my copy of Dune (50th anniversary paperback, starting on page 1 and ending on 529). Having 10% fewer pages seems pretty reasonable for about as thick. If yours are different by 180 pages, then you've clearly got a different edition of at least one of the books to me with a different font or page size, which is pretty likely given how long Dune's been in print. Given that I didn't even mention page count or word count or the complexity of the prose, just thickness, which could have simply been because of thicker paper, I think your response is unreasonably harsh.
Obviously, I don't disagree that Dune's a more complicated book, but regardless of that, The Martian is much shorter than either, and to turn it into a film, a lot of detail had to go, and a whole act had to be turned into a montage and condensed to Watney modifies a rover and drives to another site, then takes apart a rocket that's waiting for him there. I don't think there's anything simultaneously as large and expendable in Project Hail Mary, yet they obviously need to cut more.
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It's nowhere near as complicated as dune though. They can cut out a lot of the flashbacks.
If they cut too many of the flashbacks, it gets rid of, or at least erodes, the WTF? Where am I and how did I get here and why? part of the book, which is a pretty major part of it.
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Damn, I kept putting off reading it and they're already making it into a movie. At least now I have a deadline.
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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!
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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.
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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.
Yeah I know about the end.
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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This guy is a billionaire btw
Edit: I don't want movies and don't know the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
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I said they're similar thicknesses because they're right by each other on my bookshelf and are similar thicknesses. I just looked inside for the page counts, and excluding appendices, maps and diagrams of spacecraft, my copy of Project Hail Mary (the original paperback, starting on page 3 and ending on page 476) is just 55 pages shorter than my copy of Dune (50th anniversary paperback, starting on page 1 and ending on 529). Having 10% fewer pages seems pretty reasonable for about as thick. If yours are different by 180 pages, then you've clearly got a different edition of at least one of the books to me with a different font or page size, which is pretty likely given how long Dune's been in print. Given that I didn't even mention page count or word count or the complexity of the prose, just thickness, which could have simply been because of thicker paper, I think your response is unreasonably harsh.
Obviously, I don't disagree that Dune's a more complicated book, but regardless of that, The Martian is much shorter than either, and to turn it into a film, a lot of detail had to go, and a whole act had to be turned into a montage and condensed to Watney modifies a rover and drives to another site, then takes apart a rocket that's waiting for him there. I don't think there's anything simultaneously as large and expendable in Project Hail Mary, yet they obviously need to cut more.
I used goodreads because different editions are presented differently. It puts Dune at 658 and PHM at 476. If you want to truly go apples to apples the kindle edition of both, which I assume has consistent font/margins/spacing/etc has Dune at 883 and PHM at 482 for a 400 page difference on an eReader. Comparing the task of turning a vacation book into a movie vs adaptating a legendary book into movie (which was so difficult to do, that this is the third attempt and the first commercially successful one) is a false equivalence
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Hoping they pull a switcheroo and gosling plays Rocky
...I figured Rocky would be voiced by an array of theremins.
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That's an incredible poster. Hope they do it justice.
Well.. right off the rip, the suit is wrong...
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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?
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This guy is a billionaire btw
Edit: I don't want movies and don't know the difference between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
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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.)
