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….
great book
Ready Player One
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Admittedly the book is waaaaay better than the movie. Neither are great though.
I actually like the movie. It made the best out of the book, which is meh at best.
I agree wholeheartedly. The book and movies are just vehicles for delivering nostalgic references, but while in the book 80% of those references were just listing off one thing after another, in the movie I could see and hear them, which makes it much better for that nostalgia.
Yep. Book wasted time with unnecessary callback lists, obscure shows, and a hero that was kindof a jerk. The movie was fun - not deep or anything, it didn’t waste time though.
Ready Player One the movie wouldn't have been any better with him playing PacMan and Joust for hours or quoting Monty Python and War Games word-for-word.
This was a fun book. Solid narrator on the audiobook. (Ray Porter)
Ray Porter stan checking in.
Hi Stan. I meant to write you sooner, but I've just been busy.
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?
Hoping they pull a switcheroo and gosling plays Rocky
Sylvester Stallone has signed on to reprise his role as Rocky
...I figured Rocky would be voiced by an array of theremins.
Right but Hollywood so gosling does mocap and the voice is his but heavily vocodered thru the theremins.
In all seriousness I would love to be wrong about this but I doubt hwood will allow rocky and the other eridians to have musical verbal language. That means subtitles, and Hollywood fucking hates subtitles.
Yes! I had Jon Hamm in mind for the lead while I was reading it. But, Gosling surprised me as Ken in Barbie so maybe he’ll be great in this too.
IMO Gosling kinda reminds me of Brad Pitt in that he typically blends into his roles well.
Ok that would be funny.
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!
I was so sad at how fast it was over. Only took me about 8 hours from start to finish.
Fist my bump!
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
They already had to cut out a big chunk from the middle of The Martian (which then broke the I've got no radio, so no one can give me permission to board, so I'm now the first space pirate joke, which they decided to keep anyway), and Project Hail Mary is a much longer book - it's about as thick as Dune, which became two movies and still cut loads. Something major will have to change if they're going to give it an acceptable runtime.
- 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
"jazz hands"
The book is so good, I don't know if I wanna see the movie.
Cautiously hopeful.
That's an incredible poster. Hope they do it justice.
Well.. right off the rip, the suit is wrong...
Eh that's not an important detail for me
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.
Gosling personally wanted to make this movie cause he loves the story. I don't think he's too far off, and rather have someone who cares.
I really hope he keeps to the story, cause the martian was ok but they holywooded the shit out of it, and removed a lot of the stuff that made it a great book.
Wait this is gonna be a movie?!?!
That would be a great mobile wallpaper without the text.
Everyone working on this behind the scenes has a really fantastic track record. Cant wait.
Filmed "for" IMAX?
if you want to have a proper imax experience, you need to shoot a movie with that intent.
That's what they are saying here.
Other releases will have a very different screen ratio and viewing experience.
It does suggest that the space scenes will be quite glorious
But did they shoot with IMAX cameras?
They usually say it's filmed "in" IMAX.
I love this book! I was hoping they'd try to adapt it into a movie! I hope it'll be good. Very exciting!
