{"id":365133,"date":"2026-03-25T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:47:16","slug":"neal-scanlan-on-the-creation-of-project-hail-mary-star-rocky-fantha-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365133\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal Scanlan on the creation of Project Hail Mary star Rocky &#8211; Fantha Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A box office smash that not only exceeded financial but also audience expectations, Project Hail Mary is delighting audiences everywhere and here, befores &amp; afters chat with Creature Shop head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanthatracks.com\/news\/making-tracks-at-farthest-from-22-interview-with-neal-scanlan-creature-shop-supervisor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neal Scanlan<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J3V9e3uqplM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">creation of Rocky<\/a>, the five-legged alien explorer who just like Ryan Goslings character Ryland Grace is looking for a solution to why suns across the galaxy are dying.<\/p>\n<p>Project Hail Mary creature effects creative supervisor Neal Scanlan discusses how Rocky was brought to life via puppeteering.<\/p>\n<p>Go deep into the build for the puppets and animatronics.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to grab the 237th and final issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanthatracks.com\/news\/literature-art\/star-wars-insider-237-to-feature-my-exclusive-interview-with-kathleen-kennedy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars Insider<\/a> magazine, where not only do I chat with Kathleen Kennedy (in her final interview as President of Lucasfilm) and delve into the special effects department, but I also catch up with Neal to discuss the work of the Creature Shop on the multi award-winning Andor season 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A box office smash that not only exceeded financial but also audience expectations, Project Hail Mary is delighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[164585,93,61,60,270,164586],"class_list":["post-365133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-creature-shop","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-neal-scanlan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}