What's the Difference between Project Hail Mary the Book and Project Hail Mary the Movie?
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
Dr. Ryland Grace
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Dr. Ryland Grace
Portrayed by: Ryan Gosling
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Eva Stratt
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Eva Stratt
Portrayed by: Sandra Hüller
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Rocky
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Rocky
Portrayed by: James Ortiz
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This Character does not appear.
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Officer Carl
Portrayed by: Lionel Boyce
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Yáo Li-Jie
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Yáo Li-Jie
Portrayed by: Ken Leung
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Olesya Ilyukhina
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Olesya Ilyukhina
Portrayed by: Milana Vayntrub
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Annie Shapiro
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Annie Shapiro
Portrayed by: Liz Kingsman
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Dr. Lamai
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This Character does not appear.
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Martin Dubois
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Martin Dubois
Portrayed by: Malachi Kirby
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Project Hail Mary Book vs Movie
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
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Stratt is summoned to court for a civil case involving copyright infringement for putting nearly all of the data available on Earth on the Hail Mary computers. She hands the judge a preemptive pardon signed by the US president protecting her from any crimes she might commit. When a bailiff tries to restrain her, five US Army soldiers enter the courtroom to protect Stratt and escort her out. |
This does not happen in the film. |
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Nuclear weapons are used to blow up the Antarctic ice shelves to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to help warm up the Earth and give humanity a few more months to live. |
This does not happen in the film.
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Grace is sent to the primary crew to ask them how they want to die when they finish their suicide mission. Dubois wants painless nitrogen gas asphyxiation, Ilyukhina wants to die by a heroin overdose and Yao will shoot himself last with a pistol. |
This does not happen in the film. |
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While testing an astophage powered DC generator at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Dubois and Shapiro are issued a milligram of astrophage instead of a nanogram. When the overload condition is tested, the entire building is vaporized; everyone in the building is killed. |
The building appears to explode in a fireball. Dubois and Shapiro are killed.
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Stratt, Yao and Ilyukhina meet with Grace to convince him to volunteer for the mission. Stratt tells Grace that he has been the tertiary backup for the crew the entire time as he trained the other scientists. Yao says he will not allow Grace to be forced to join the crew. Five hours later Grace refuses to join the crew; Stratt has him detained in a jail cell. She tells him that he will be put in a coma early; the medical robot will inject a drug to cause amnesia to prevent him from sabotaging the mission. Stratt will tell Yao that Grace wanted to be drugged early as he was afraid of the launch. |
Stratt tells Grace that she needs him on the mission. Yao and Ilyukhina assure him that he will learn on the job. He gets three hours to decide. Later, he tells Stratt he will not go, she says he will; Grace tries to run away and is caught. |