Andy Weir

It's really sensational.

This is a quote he gave, I think, in that Inverse interview, and I just thought it was so beautiful.

There are so many times that we have a job where maybe only 30% of us is invited to work.

Hail Mary is the first time in my career where 100% of me was invited to work every day.

Me as a sort of sci-fi nerd, me as a cinephile, but also me as an improviser and puppeteer and sort of team leader.

So I just think this is such a cool thing.

And yeah, we'll talk a bit more about the physical sets that they built and all that sort of stuff like that.

But to make it feel as real as possible.

Yes.

is just a huge in a space movie with a critter co-star is just like an incredible accomplishment of this movie and this is why i'm always advocating for puppetry i think it just like makes a huge difference like is there a version of this with cg rocky that could have worked maybe but like i don't know i just think there's something so special about a puppet put it on a t-shirt

That was the first thing that like, you know, the three of us were really animated to talk about when we got it.

Like we were literally walking out of the darkened theater talking about the score for this movie.

Daniel Pemberton, amazing director.

Slow horses.

Hell yeah.

You know, done some great work on slow horses.

I think he'd be delighted by Rocky.

Honestly, I think it would melt even Jackson Lamb's heart.

None at all.

You know, Daniel worked on with Lord and Miller on the Spider-Verse movies.