Lord and Miller say Spider-Verse work inspired Project Hail Mary

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller began in animation with 2009's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and have returned to the medium repeatedly. Their most ambitious recent work is the Spider-Verse franchise, a visual feast that combines different animation styles to convey multiple alternate universes and versions of Spider-Man.

Lord wrote 2019's Into the Spider-Verse, and the pair re-teamed to pen 2023's Across the Spider-Verse and the upcoming Beyond the Spider-Verse. Project Hail Mary, based on the novel by Andy Weir, follows Ryan Gosling's Ryland Grace, a scientist-turned-elementary school teacher who wakes up on a spacecraft bound for a world-saving mission in a distant galaxy with no memory of how or why he got there.

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