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‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Screened a Nearly Four-Hour Cut to Other Filmmakers and Were Told to ‘Get It Way Shorter’: ‘It Was Embarrassing’ (variety.com)
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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stratt had almost all of her character stripped away too. Without the Antarctica or Sahara bits she just felt like a project manager rather than the ruthless person she was in the novel.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I wanted so badly to talk about how they gutted what she did to keep humanity around til the Beatles (which were never named as Beatles so it was weird to see that they were still named after all 4 of em) arrived... but I went with two others who never read the book.