‘Project Hail Mary’ Contains Not a Single Green Screen Shot in Entire Movie, Director Says
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Amazon-MGM's entire 156-minute, big-budget sci-fi gamble was shot without any green (or blue) screen, Christopher Miller says.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Want another reason to see Project Hail Mary ? The highly anticipated, big-budget Ryan Gosling title somehow contains not a single shot of green/blue screen in the entire film. Which is really saying something considering Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi epic that’s 156 minutes long. Christopher Miller, who directed the film along with Phil Lord, told Comicbook.com (below, with some unmistakable pride in his voice), “What’s fun about the movie is that there is no green screen in the movie whatsoever. Not a single green or blue screen was used. The whole ship was built as a set from the inside. We had a huge section of the exterior of the ship on the outside that we built. [The alien character Rocky] was really with us at all times.” Related Stories Movies Ryan Gosling's 'Project Hail Mary': First Reactions Movies "I Wanted to Know if I Could Pull It Off": Sandra Hüller on Playing a Woman Playing a Man in 'Rose' “And so, that’s what makes it feel real and makes it feel natural,” Miller continued. “And the way that [cinematographer Greg Fraser’s] team lit [the set] with a lot of practical effects, allowed him to move the camera wherever and find these moments. Because you weren’t just guessing and pointing it at where Rocky might be someday [if the character was added in post-production]. That’s what makes [the action] feel like it was captured in the moment.” Project Hail Mary has a reported gross budget of $248 million ($200 million after tax credits, says Puck) and represents a bit of a Hail Mary by the studio. But at a time when many sci-fi, superhero and fantasy projects are stuffed with green screen artificiality (not to mention, our collective increasing weariness of so-called “AI slop” videos online), the practical nature of th...
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