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‘Project Hail Mary’ Won’t Be ‘Streaming Anytime Soon’ as It Extends Run in Movie Theaters: ‘It’s an Experience to Share With Others’ News/Updates (variety.com)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Agreed on the stratt change. They seemingly watered her down a ton. It is what it is though. They also cut out a lot of the prep side if the mission. However they would have to cut something, it was already a 2.5 hour movie 🤣

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Making Stratt a little more sympathetic and likeable probably wasn't a bad idea for the translation to the screen. They did the same thing with Annie and Mitch in The Martian. Book!Annie is - when the cameras aren't running - a foul mouthed abrasive asshat. Movie!Annie is a somewhat impatient jerk. Book!Mitch is a sledgehammer of a man, Movie!Mitch is a broody snotrag, I legitimately didn't recognize Sean Bean's character as Mitch Henderson.

    Book!Stratt is, in Andy Weir's words, "A badass ice cube in heels." She's one of very few characters I can think of who is an unambiguously good person, and also thoroughly ruthless. She has a habit of taking possession of people...and biomes...she deems useful. She gets a humanizing and sobering "why I'm like this" speech near the end that works well in a novel but I don't know if it would play as well on screen.

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