How Project Hail Mary Puts Lord and Miller’s Buddy Comedy Chops to The Test | IGN Fan Fest 2026
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller's 'Project Hail Mary' tests their buddy comedy skills with a scientist and sentient rock-creature team-up, blending effects and humor to explore friendship under pressure. The film releases March 20th.
With their work on movies like 21 Jump Street, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and The Lego Batman Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have proven they can take the “buddy comedy” dynamic in loads of different directions. Project Hail Mary, which centers on a scientist (Ryan Gosling) and a sentient rock-creature teaming up to save the universe, puts that strength to test, but at the end of the day, Lord and Miller are using a blend of practical effects, big special effects, and a heartwarming text from Andy Weir to ask a simple question with a lot of relevance to their canon: “can adult men make friends if the universe depends on it?”
Project Hail Mary is in theaters March 20th.
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