{"id":304172,"date":"2026-02-27T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304172\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:42:08","slug":"how-project-hail-mary-puts-lord-and-millers-buddy-comedy-chops-to-the-test-ign-fan-fest-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304172\/","title":{"rendered":"How Project Hail Mary Puts Lord and Miller\u2019s Buddy Comedy Chops to The Test | IGN Fan Fest 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">With their work on movies like 21 Jump Street, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and The Lego Batman Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have proven they can take the \u201cbuddy comedy\u201d dynamic in loads of different directions. Project Hail Mary, which centers on a scientist (Ryan Gosling) and a sentient rock-creature teaming up to save the universe, puts that strength to test, but at the end of the day, Lord and Miller are using a blend of practical effects, big special effects, and a heartwarming text from Andy Weir to ask a simple question with a lot of relevance to their canon: \u201ccan adult men make friends if the universe depends on it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Project Hail Mary is in theaters March 20th.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Presented by NTE and HyperX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their work on movies like 21 Jump Street, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and The Lego Batman Movie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-304172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304172","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=304172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}