{"id":274360,"date":"2026-02-08T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274360\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:13:07","slug":"we-would-die-for-this-final-project-hail-mary-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274360\/","title":{"rendered":"We Would Die for This Final ‘Project Hail Mary’ Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final trailer for Project Hail Mary was just released, and it\u2019s all led to this<\/a>. With previous trailers only hinting at<\/a> the film\u2019s other main character, an alien creature named Rocky<\/a>, this trailer goes all in on it. And it\u2019s absolutely adorable.<\/p>\n

Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling<\/a> as Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher who wakes up in space and realizes the fate of the planet is in his hands. But, very quickly, he also finds out Earth isn\u2019t the only planet in danger. He teams up with an alien from another world, whom he nicknames Rocky, to save both their planets. And, as the headline (as well as the song choice of the trailer) says, we would die for this little guy.<\/p>\n

Lord and Miller are aware that some people might be angry that Rocky, who has been teased in the past, is now featured so prominently, but they promise it\u2019s okay. \u201cThis movie is a relationship movie,\u201d Miller said at a recent event in Los Angeles that io9 was at. \u201cThe co-star of the movie is not really a secret. It would be like doing E.T. with E.T. or something.\u201d \u201cOne of the things people often ask when they go to see a movie is, \u2018What is the premise of the movie?’\u201d Lord added. \u201cWe felt like we should answer that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who had experiences reading the book were like, \u2018Oh my God, what a crazy surprise.\u2019 Because they [didn\u2019t] know anything,\u201d Miller said. \u201cPeople who go to the movies need a little more information than people that are reading the books. We knew we weren\u2019t going to make it through the whole campaign without revealing the co-star.\u201d<\/p>\n

A co-star who shows up at the end of Act One and plays a huge, huge role moving ahead in the story. We\u2019ll have more on just how big a role Rocky plays, as well as more information on the relationship between him and Grace, on Monday. For now, what do you think of the final trailer for Project Hail Mary? It opens March 20.<\/p>\n

\"Project\u00a9 Amazon MGM <\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final trailer for Project Hail Mary was just released, and it\u2019s all led to this. With previous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[154810,156,409,111,139,69,154811,95894,27962],"class_list":{"0":"post-274360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-chris-miller","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-phil-lord","15":"tag-project-hail-mary","16":"tag-ryan-gosling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}