Well, it’s official, Project Hail Mary is a moneymaker for Amazon. The info says it cost $200 million to produce. Even if they spent another $100 million to advertise (which they wouldn’t have to because, of course, they’re Amazon!) that still puts them in the black. And this is all in advance of what they’ll make streaming the movie on their own platform after the end of the theatrical run.
Well, well, well. So people will go to the movies if you give them something that isn’t woke slop. If you give them entertaining story telling they’ll pay you money to watch it. Shocking. Wake up Disney. Amazon is eating your lunch, you fools.
i bought and read the book a few years ago and considered it to be quite good. My taste in SF these days is epitomized by Neal Asher, S.A. Corey and Peter Hamilton.
The fact that the studios made movies out of both of this guy’s bigger novels is at least a sign that someone in Hollywood isn’t completely locked into “woke at any price.”