Published Mar 20, 2026, 9:31 AM EDT

'It wasn't like the studio did it. I was the one that was like, I think we got to cut it, guys. But I'm still sad about it.'

Project Hail Mary author, screenwriter share the biggest thing they hated cutting for the movie

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science-fiction thriller Project Hail Mary sticks surprisingly close to the book it’s adapting, a thriller about a lone astronaut trying to save Earth from apocalypse. But the novel of the same name, written by The Martian author Andy Weir , does have some wrinkles that inevitably had to be left out of the movie.…