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Production designer Charlie Wood takes viewers behind the scenes of Project Hail Mary, showing how the film’s spacecraft was created with inspiration from NASA. See it first March 14 and 15 in cinemas and IMAX before the film arrives in theaters March 19.
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00:00The sun is dying.
00:02Every star was infected except one,
00:05which is why we built a ship to go there and find out.
00:09It's 11.9 light years away.
00:11You can't just build an interstellar ship.
00:13Oh yeah, we can.
00:15This is Project Hail Mary.
00:18The ship was just incredible.
00:21These sets were so massive and realistic.
00:24I don't think Charlie Wood, our production designer,
00:26ever really accepted that this was just pretend.
00:30My ship.
00:31We had some conversations with NASA about authenticity,
00:35how to make it fearless an audience.
00:37You're on the ship with Grayson, with Rocky.
00:40It feels tactile, it feels real, it feels like you're there.
00:44I conquered Zero-T in five hours.
00:48We had to have the sets built vertically and horizontally
00:52so that we could film into different forms of gravity.
00:55The ship wasn't built for this.
00:58It is time go.
01:01I think you mean go time, pal.
01:02Seeing the Hail Mary on screen was breathtaking.
01:06If Grace Rocky saves stars, we can go home.
01:09The way that this ship is realized
01:11is truly like nothing I've ever seen.
01:14No matter what, it's best that people change.
01:18No matter what, it's best that people change.
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