Episode 207: Project Hail Mary
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The BTS team discusses the film's tone, the effect of its parallel timelines, and why it feels like a throwback to some of Steven Spielberg's early sci-fi films.
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| 0:26.7 | Hi, I'm Michael. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:33.0 | The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. |
| 0:44.2 | Today we are talking about Project Hail Mary, the 26 film by screenplay by Drew Goddard, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on the novel by Andy Weir. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm joined by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Arrand. |
| 0:48.4 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:49.7 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:51.2 | Amaze, amaze, amaze. |
| 0:53.0 | And Alex Galleros. |
| 0:56.4 | I was going to do a rocky thing and I couldn't think of one. |
| 0:57.6 | So hi. |
| 0:59.5 | This is my bump, baby. |
| 1:02.8 | Okay. |
| 1:06.8 | So before we dive in, a couple just housekeeping things to talk about. |
| 1:12.2 | So we mentioned this, I think, on our last episode, but we for Fight Club release some extra experimental kinds of content over on the Beyond Screenplay YouTube channel. We did a breakdown |
| 1:18.6 | of the whole three-act structure of the film. We looked at the opening 10 minutes or so to |
| 1:25.1 | talk about how Fight Club teaches you to watch it. |
| 1:28.1 | And we looked at how you block actors and create movement in the scene. |
| 1:32.2 | So those three videos are over on YouTube. |
| 1:35.1 | Check them out. |
| 1:35.7 | We'd love to hear your thoughts on this new format. |
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