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Filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller discuss the incredible amount of thought that went into designing the alien vessel in 'Project Hail Mary.' Learn about their collaboration with scientists and author Andy Weir to create a ship filled with alien culture and history.
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00:00I want to talk about Rocky's ship, specifically when Ryan walks onto it.
00:05Oh, yeah.
00:05I mean, you must have put a lot of thought into what that was going to look like.
00:08Yes.
00:09Mostly into the crazy spacesuit Rocky made for Ryan.
00:14But, yeah, and also, you know, Charlie Wood, our amazing production designer,
00:18who was very, very thoughtful and an amazing person was like,
00:22had lots of discussions with scientists about, like,
00:26and Andy about, like, what's their communication technique?
00:28And there's reasons for all of the things that were in there,
00:31like the little wires that they had for making,
00:35plucking, like, guitar strings to communicate from the front to the back of the ship.
00:39And there's, like, carvings on the walls that represent things.
00:42There's so much culture and history there that, like,
00:45people will hopefully, like, dig into it.
00:47And there's reasons for everything.

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