Joanna Robinson

Yeah.

But, like, the story itself has aspects that contradict that.

I don't know.

To your point about Hope Corps, I mean...

It's that moment in the film where everyone...

around the world which is impossible but like let's just pretend everyone around the world is both watching this and believing it and is changing something fundamentally in them and I was thinking about I really like when that happens in a movie we recently watched The Martian everyone on earth is cheering for this one man to get home or like in the 90s like The Truman Show or Ed TV like these moments where like everyone's watching it everyone's rooting for something we are all united in something um

This doesn't exist in this other 2026 movie, but I think Project Hail Mary has, like, this hope core aspect to it, but it's not asking us to buy into the larger good of the world, but, like, what can these two individuals do if they open themselves up to something?

Yes.

Versus, like...

My absolute cynicism about the state of humanity right now just like really banging in my head at the end of this movie, unfortunately.

Whereas tears streaming down my face, big smile on my face during Project Hail Mary.

Yes.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

It's interesting.

And I'll be so curious what the sort of like enduring legacy of this movie is if –

The audience that you saw it with yesterday is the general reaction.

If this feels like it endures beyond this opening weekend sort of moment, or if it will just be like a 74 fun, fine time at the movies that I don't really remember.

I think my favorite thing about it, which is...

what Universal wanted me to do is like how it's made me think about other Spielberg movies.