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The third and final trailer for the Project Hail Mary film has dropped. Here are some of our initial thoughts. MAJOR SPOILER ALERT for both the trailer and the book.
- We receive further confirmation of the use of video diaries to convey what, in the book, are Grace’s internal thoughts
- We get an extended look at Grace analyzing Rocky’s sounds, compiling them into a dictionary, and for the first time, we hear Rocky’s “translated” voice
- Evidence continues to suggest Grace was convinced (not forced) to go on the mission
- The line ”I understand that you think I’m the right person for this mission” suggests Grace was always intended to go on the mission
- Given the casting and who we can identify across all the trailers, it’s not clear who else (if anyone) was in the crew (although Ilyukhina, Shapiro, and Yáo seem to have been cast)
- If it was intended that Grace would go all along, who dies in the explosion on Earth that we’ve seen in every trailer?
- It will be interesting to see what the ratio of Space to Earth is in the film. In the book it's about 70% vs 30%
- Rocky giving a thumbs down to Grace’s thumbs up seems to become a thing and we’re fans
We will undertake further analysis in a future beanbag.