"Amazon's upcoming Project Hail Mary is setting itself up as a companion piece to 2015's The Martian. Both are based on books by Andy Weir, follow solitary space adventurers, and have scripts written by veteran TV writer Drew Goddard. But while The Martian was directed by sci-fi legend Ridley Scott, Project Hail Mary is being helmed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the minds behind Sony's Oscar-winning Spider-Versetrilogy."
"In the trailer, Ryland encounters "Rocky," an alien whose species has sent him on the same mission to save the galaxy. Naturally, Rocky doesn't speak English, which means the duo will need to find a way to communicate. "So, I met an alien," Ryland says in the trailer. "He's a genius engineer. And if I can't understand what he's saying, he puts on a little puppet show for me and my tiny brain, and you know what, I don't mind it.""
"Using crude models of Ryland and his ship, Rocky manages to communicate that they share a common goal. Then, to keep the movie from becoming one big game of charades, it appears that Ryland develops a translation machine that essentially provides in-universe subtitles for everything Rocky says. In the trailer, we see it spit out a single sentence: "Grace Rocky save stars.""
Project Hail Mary is a companion piece to 2015's The Martian, sharing Andy Weir source material and a solitary-space-adventurer premise. Both films feature scripts by Drew Goddard; Project Hail Mary is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The story follows Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a molecular biologist on a last-ditch mission to save Earth from a galactic catastrophe. A trailer shows Grace meeting "Rocky," an alien engineer who initially cannot speak English and communicates with crude models and puppet demonstrations. Grace creates a translation machine that generates in-universe subtitles; the trailer shows it outputting the line: "Grace Rocky save stars."
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