Ryan Gosling<\/a> plays science teacher Ryland Grace \u201cwho wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction\u2026on the journey, an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tSandra H\u00fcller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, Milana Vayntrub co-star in the Amazon MGM crowd-pleaser, which took $684.5M at the global box office.<\/p>\n
\n\tFraser and the film\u2019s production designer Charles Wood, also known for his work on blockbusters including Spider-Man: Brand New Day and the Avengers and Guardians Of The Galaxy franchise, talked about how the film was grounded in authenticity and not overly saturated in VFX. <\/p>\n
\n\tWood explained: \u201cA lot of the sets were eight to 10 foot in diameter. So the camera was on everything. Greg\u2019s camera was on everything. I needed to make sure that whatever was in front of the camera really gave the audience a feeling that you were really in this ship with this man going to eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFraser added: \u201cThere was an authenticity to the rationale of how things operated. There wasn\u2019t anything created for the sake of visual pleasure. It started in a place of honesty from a science perspective, which is how the book\u2019s written.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThat desire for authenticity included the puppetry work behind the film\u2019s memorable alien character Rocky.<\/p>\n
\n\tWood commented: \u201cI didn\u2019t realize coming onto the film that this would all be essentially live action. Working with a team of puppeteers on a set of a certain diameter was a real challenge. I wasn\u2019t even sure how it was all going to play out, but it\u2019s extraordinary how the puppet team did their work. It shines through in the film. You feel this creature really did exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFraser said he recognized the film\u2019s comparison with E.T., another film celebrated for for relying on practical effects and animatronics rather than computer-generated imagery (CGI).<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe times there are VFX, they\u2019re stunningly, authentically appropriate for that particular part of the film. I think that the the directors have found that same through-line with this film. They\u2019re used for an absolutely good reason.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs part of their research Wood described how the team met NASA astronauts and heard about their experiences, including how one was so overwhelmed by seeing the earth from space that he would cry but his tears wouldn\u2019t fall due to gravity, meaning he often had a blurred vision of the planet from his ship.<\/p>\n
\n\tFraser and Wood were both asked about the potential for a sequel or follow-on movie given that the book\u2019s writer Andy Weir has spoken about writing another novel connected to the story. \u201cThat\u2019s the first I\u2019m hearing about it\u201d, Fraser said.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe movie is produced by Amy Pascal, Gosling, Lord, Miller, Weir, Aditya Sood and Rachel O\u2019Connor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning DoP Greig Fraser knows a thing or two about working on challenging movies, from Dune to The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[338,49,48,318704,21344,1354,61],"class_list":["post-927886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-contenders-london","tag-project-hail-mary","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}