What Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary Looks Like Without Special Effects
A sci-fi epic like “Project Hail Mary” has to lean heavily on special effects, right? Think again.
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Not a single green screen | 0:00
The Hail Mary’s practical interior | 1:18
Thousands of buttons and hundreds of screens | 2:25
Puppetry, animatronics, and animation | 3:45
A rotating set and wire work | 5:01
Practical backgrounds | 6:14
Practical costumes | 7:09
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@Looper
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
What did you think of Project Hail Mary?
@christiangrafe8048
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
No greenscreens is not no vfx and also vfx is not special fx. Nowdays they almost always rotoscope and light in a volume anyways. This is just promotion. "Compared to somehting like avatar" is the dumbest comparison ever. Is like the haviest vfx movie ever and longest.
@onkarbansal4083
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
1:13 This is an unbelievably STUPID comment. The Avatar franchise is famously effects-heavy and Fire and Ash is also a longer film. You cherry-picked this very specific film to make the IDIOTIC statement that 2,000 VFX shots is not a lot when it’s more than:
The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers COMBINED,
The Return of the King,
The entire Dark Knight trilogy COMBINED,
Godzilla 2014 and Godzilla Minus One COMBINED,
The Phantom Menace.
Interstellar (similar type of film, only 700 VFX shots, less than half of this film).
2,000 VFX shots is about the same any Marvel movie from the last decade. Not every VFX shot is equal, some shots are entirely digital whilst others may be mostly practical with some paint-outs but still, don’t post NONSENSE like 2,000+ VFX shots is not a lot.
@bad_writer
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
Dumb video with lots of misinformation. "NO green screens" "No CGI" lmao look at 1:32 there are literally parts of the set that are just flat blue that later got replaced with CG
@robertlaughton9601
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
WTF? "…after all it was 1883." Right Looper, she should have just bopped down to Walgreen's and picked up a script of Amoxicillin right? Note to Looper, penicillin wasn't invented for another 40 years. Dah
Just for you who don't understand, it's a story. It isn't real life…
@Notiuws
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
LOOPER
@Randy_N9RAN
May 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
Project Hail Mary was AWESOME!!! Rocky was wonderful!!! Can't wait to go see it again this weekend!! Happy Happy Happy!!!
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