{"id":506228,"date":"2026-03-06T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:47:09","slug":"project-hail-mary-used-no-green-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506228\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Project Hail Mary&#8221; Used No Green Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/project-hail-mary-used-no-green-screen.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures International\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/project-hail-mary-used-no-green-screen.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"project-hail-mary-used-no-green-screen\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures International<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a $200 million budget, you would think that Phil Lord and Chris Miller\u2018s sci-fi feature \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d would be full of not just completely CG VFX shots for the space shots, but a lot of green screen for the scenes of Ryan Gosling interacting with an alien.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that\u2019s not the case.  The film, based on the novel by author Andy Weir (\u201cThe Martian\u201d), follows a school teacher and former biologist onboard a spacecraft where he interacts with an alien named \u2018Rocky\u2019 in an effort to save their solar system\u2019s stars from dying.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky himself is essentially a boulder with arms and legs, and much of the movie seems to be about their interactions.  Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/project-hail-mary-directors-reveal-how-much-of-the-movie-is-practical-effects-more-than-you-think\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ComicBook.com<\/a> to promote the film, Miller says the project uses no green screen or blue screen at all.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, huge chunks of the spaceship\u2019s interior and exterior were built practically, as was the Rocky creature, which gave the film\u2019s cinematographer Greig Fraser (\u201cDune: Part One,\u201d \u201cThe Batman\u201d) a lot of freedom to shoot it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s fun about the movie is [that] there is no green screen in the movie whatsoever. Not a single green or blue screen was used. The whole ship was built as a set from the inside.<\/p>\n<p>We had a huge section of the exterior of the ship on the outside that we built. Rocky was really with us at all times. That\u2019s what makes it feel real and makes it feel natural.<\/p>\n<p>The way that Greig\u2019s team lit with a lot of practical lights allowed him to move the camera wherever and find these moments because we could see this thing that Rocky was doing and then move over to [Ryan Gosling\u2019s character] Grace and see his reaction to what was really happening, and you weren\u2019t just guessing and pointing out where Rocky might be some day. And that\u2019s what makes it feel like it was captured in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drew Goddard penned the script for the film.  The first trailer was the biggest trailer launch in Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 history back in July. Sandra H\u00fcller and Milana Vayntrub co-star in the film opening March 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures International Armed with a $200 million budget, you would think that Phil Lord&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[137872,88,206],"class_list":["post-506228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}