Project Hail Mary: The Sci-Fi Thriller That Defies Expectations and Challenges Reality
Project Hail Mary is not that movie. And I’m guessing the main reason for that is Amazon. Cause MGM would’ve never been able to make this movie. I mean, it would’ve literally been impossible. That place had a bunch of dinosaurs working for it, none of whom were good enough to work at any of the more celebrated studios. An infusion of new blood always inspires people to take more risks and they not only took those risks. They knocked them out of the park.
What kind of risks are we talking about?
The time-jumping was the main one. Time-jumping always creates issues because it chops up the narrative. And when you’re chopping up a narrative, the pacing gets a lot tougher. The plotting itself gets tougher. It’s not nearly as easy, in screenwriting, to know where to place moments because your traditional 3-Act structure is constantly being invaded by the past. I know it doesn’t look all that difficult from the outside. But any screenwriter who’s tried to get that balance right knows what a bitch it is.
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