This time, it's Ryan Gosling who takes the lead in the extremely likeable adventure Project Hail Mary, with directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller at the helm. There have already been some very early whisperings that we could see more Oscar nods – with the film opening to rave reviews from critics – while it also looks a safe bet for box office success.
Of course, given he's won all sorts of acclaim for the vivid science fiction worlds he's created on the page, you'd probably imagine Weir had a fairly good idea of what he wanted Rocky to look like on the big screen – but according to the man himself, the opposite is in fact true.
Weir added that while he had a good idea of the characters basic morphology – "I knew he was like a thorax with like five legs" – he had by no means meticulously planned the more specific details of the characters.
"So once I saw the Rocky puppet when I went to the model shop, and the puppeteers workshop, and I saw it, I was like, 'Oh, great. Now I finally know what Rocky looks like!'"
View Green Video on the source website"He's such a great partner," he added. "The team there is really, really smart. And we did a bunch of variations on the shapes, but keeping it to what was described in the book: that it was a rock-like carapace, with five legs, three fingers on each leg, no face, no eyes, no mouth.
"And then we had to work on, 'How do we make this a real character?" he continued.
"We just gave ourselves a lot of tools to make him interesting from every angle. And then James [Ortiz] and the puppet team, and then Aslan [Almukhambetov] and animation team really elevated him through movement."
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