“Project Hail Mary” doesn’t have a single green screen shot in the entire movie, the director says

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Want another reason to see? Hail Mary project?

Ryan Gosling’s long-awaited, big-budget title somehow doesn’t have a single green/blue screen shot in the entire film.

Which really says something considering Hail Mary project It is a 156-minute science fiction epic.

The Amazon MGM Studios project is based on Martian Author Andy Weir’s bestselling hard science novel Hail Mary project It tells the story of an astronaut (Gosling) on ​​a high-risk mission to save Earth from an interstellar catastrophe, and encounters an alien trying to save his world from the same fate.

Christopher Miller, who directed the film with Phil Lord, told Comicbook.com (below, with some unmistakable pride in his voice), “The fun thing about the movie is that there’s no green screen in the movie at all. Not a single green or blue screen was used. The whole ship was built as a set on the inside. We had a huge section of the outside of the ship from the outside that we built.” [The alien character Rocky] He was truly with us at all times.

“That’s what makes it feel real and makes it feel natural,” Miller continued. “And the way that [cinematographer Greg Fraser’s] The team is lit [the set] With lots of practical effects, it allowed him to move the camera wherever he was and find those moments. Because you weren’t just guessing and pointing out where Rocky was may It will be someday [if the character was added in post-production]. That’s what makes [the action] I feel like I was captured in the moment.

Hail Mary project It has a reported total budget of $248 million ($200 million after tax credits, Bock says) and represents a bit of a Hail Mary by the studio. But at a time when so many sci-fi, superhero, and fantasy projects are filled with green screen art (not to mention our collective growing boredom with so-called “AI slop” videos online), the practical nature of film could be a selling point.

The film has received somewhat early buzz. One reporter called it “deep and deeply moving, an absolute masterpiece of hope and humanity. It’s also maddeningly entertaining”, while another wrote that the film “seems, in many ways, like a miracle of a film. It combines the technical awe of film”. attractivenessCheerfulness and humor in solving problems Martianand overwhelming emotions Interstellar In one movie with his unique style and charm.

The cast also includes Sandra Holler, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, and Milana Vayntrub. Hail Mary project It will be released in theaters on March 20.