Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

Read 04/05/2025, 04/05/2026

I've been saying this to pretty much anyone who is willing to listen to me in real-life, but if you haven't, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND going to see Project Hail Mary in theatres before it's gone. It was such an amazing book (I'm biased because I was already a fan of Andy Weir before this book came out) and unlike a lot of other movie adaptations of books I actually really liked the changes they made.

It reminded me a tiny bit of the differences between Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. To anyone else who has seen both of those shows, you know that they have really different ways of approaching characters from the same source that make it really interesting to go between the two of them and think about why those changes were made.

I think it's especially apparent with Rocky's character- for example, in the book, he is really disgusted with the way that Eridians eat, but in the movie, he is proud of it and calls it "beautiful" after he'd stated that humans look disgusting when they eat. It was fun to sit back and think about why the writers who adapted the novel into a movie made that change. I really just felt like this the entire time because I liked both the movie and the book for entirely different reasons.