Phil Lord and Chris Miller took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con with star Ryan Gosling to talk their March 2026 film.
Making movies is all about compromises. This actor is unavailable, so you cast someone else. That location is too expensive, so let’s build a set. This shot is impossible, so let’s think of something better. At every step, the big, huge mechanism of filmmaking is always a work in progress. But on Project Hail Mary, directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord tried to embrace a new philosophy.
“What’s great about this movie is there are so many things that make it harder to make,” Miller said in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. “All of the zero G, all of the centrifugal gravity, the characters have to have a wall between them because their atmospheres are different. Everything that a regular movie would be like, ‘Oh, we can change that,’ we were like, ‘Anything that makes it harder we’re not going to change.
