{"id":687748,"date":"2026-05-22T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:24:20","slug":"project-hail-mary-when-apocalypse-films-get-too-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/687748\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Hail Mary: when apocalypse films get too optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent blockbuster Project Hail Mary offers an unusual take on the end-of-the-world genre (spoilers forthcoming if you haven\u2019t seen it). In a variation on author Andy Weir\u2019s \u201clone, astonishingly good-looking bloke stuck off-world\u201d template, a sort of stellar virus is consuming the sun, lowering temperatures and threatening to send civilisation back, literally, to the dark ages. Scientists discover that other nearby stars are also infected, but one, Tau Ceti, isn\u2019t, so a disgruntled ex-scientist is unwillingly dispatched 11 light-years away to find out why \u2014 only to discover that another species has done the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent blockbuster Project Hail Mary offers an unusual take on the end-of-the-world genre (spoilers forthcoming if you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48703,282145,64,63,7961,134,1689,344,308279,24481,36537,42592],"class_list":["post-687748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aliens","tag-apocalypse","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-climate-crisis","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-nuclear-war","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}