From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's been a while so I had our old friends,

Phil Lord, Chris Miller,

here to do the show since 2014, I think. Fortunately, they haven't directed the movie

since 2014. They've done a bunch of other things since then, but they're back behind the

camera for the adaptation of the novel Project Hail Mary. First of all, guys, thanks so much for coming

back. We're glad to be here. Happy to be back.

In reading the book, there's so much of the book that I have forgot, that I thought I

had forgotten until I saw the movie again. And there's this kind of sense that I wanted

to talk to you guys both about this, of playfulness and dread that the book has, that you're able to capture because it's basically his spoken

narration and we don't know where we are. And what you guys really get across is that kind of

sense of sort of psychological dislocation in the film. Yeah, we wanted you to wake up the way

you wake up in the novel, disoriented,

and in the first person, the novel has the benefit of having the main character,

Rylan Grace, narrate the entire story. So we had to figure out how to do that

cinematically. The other thing the book does so well is that

the book is friendly. As much as it talks about

hard things, there's something about the tone of Andy Weir's

writing that's very playful and funny. And so we

wanted the movie to kind of signal early on. Like,

you're in trouble, but the movie believes in you.

And so that was very deliberate.

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