{"id":362079,"date":"2026-03-28T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/362079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:07:08","slug":"project-hail-mary-directors-screened-four-hour-cut-to-other-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/362079\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Hail Mary Directors Screened Four-Hour Cut to Other Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/project-hail-mary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_project-hail-mary\" data-tag=\"project-hail-mary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Hail Mary<\/a>\u201d directors <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/phil-lord\/\" id=\"auto-tag_phil-lord\" data-tag=\"phil-lord\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Lord<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chris-miller\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-miller\" data-tag=\"chris-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Miller<\/a> recently appeared on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast and revealed they showed a nearly four-hour cut of their space movie to a group of director friends. However, the results were \u201cembarrassing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOur first official test screening went great, but we do a lot of earlier screenings for friends and family and other filmmakers and writers,\u201d Miller explained. \u201cThis movie was massive. When we finally got the assembly cut down to under four hours long, we subjected some filmmaker friends of ours to a three hour and 45 minute cut of the movie, which was embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLord noted that the feedback the directing duo got was unanimous: \u201cGet it way shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYou just don\u2019t know how the scenes are going to land with an audience,\u201d Lord said. \u201cWe thought everything was charming, but some of those charming things didn\u2019t land. It made it really easy to get it down to three hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThen we had to slowly, slowly work our way down to 2.5 hours,\u201d Miller added, which is around the final length of the movie\u2019s theatrical cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is based on Andy Weir\u2019s book of the same name and stars <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ryan-gosling\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryan-gosling\" data-tag=\"ryan-gosling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Gosling<\/a> as Ryland Grace, a science teacher and former molecular biologist who is recruited by the government to help save the Earth from dying. Ryland then unwittingly finds himself on an interstellar mission that includes meeting the alien Rocky. The movie was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/project-hail-mary-box-office-biggest-debut-2026-amazon-mgm-record-1236696247\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a blockbuster success<\/a> in its opening weekend with $80.5 million at the domestic box office, the year\u2019s biggest opening so far and the top debut in Amazon MGM\u2019s history. The movie has since crossed the $100 million mark domestically ahead of its second weekend of release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch Lord and Miller\u2019s full interview on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller recently appeared on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,164922,146,85,46,86966,86964,20672],"class_list":{"0":"post-362079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chris-miller","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-phil-lord","14":"tag-project-hail-mary","15":"tag-ryan-gosling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}