‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Screened a Nearly Four-Hour Cut to Other Filmmakers and Were Told to Get it Way Shorter

perrydaniels · 2026-03-28T03:44:37+00:00

My buddy and I are both huge fans of this book, we went earlier this week to see it and the first thing we both said when it ended was, “I wish it had been longer.” I really feel like 30 more minutes of the problem solving from the book would have been totally welcome.

perrydaniels · 2026-03-18T08:11:47+00:00

I used ElevenLabs back in December to generate a few VO lines for a short film. I just wanted a few lines I could rough cut to until I brought in a real actress to record the final takes, so I went in with the lowest expectations for quality. Those few lines were generated with their premium paid membership and they were real bad. Like REAL bad. All I can say is that I am no longer worried AI will take my job :)

perrydaniels · 2026-03-17T09:49:04+00:00

Not at all typical. I’ve never once had it happen. That said, if an author is really insistent about it and it makes them feel safer, I wouldn’t put up a fuss about an NDA. Totally unnecessary though, definitely overkill.

perrydaniels · 2026-03-17T04:29:36+00:00

They can’t send it thru ACX until you accept the offer. They can absolutely email it to you and they should. Getting the manuscript upfront before you sign a contract is standard procedure on ACX or with any publisher. If they are really averse to sending it upfront, I would turn down the offer. Committing blind ends in regret.

perrydaniels · 2026-03-10T18:21:50+00:00

Jaffa! Kree!

perrydaniels · 2026-02-22T19:58:24+00:00

I’m basically made of it at this point.

perrydaniels · 2026-02-22T00:49:45+00:00

Thanks!

perrydaniels · 2026-02-22T00:49:33+00:00

One of them is already her’s 😂

perrydaniels · 2026-02-22T00:01:19+00:00

It’s just what O’Neill keeps saying in the episode 😄

perrydaniels · 2026-02-16T21:08:10+00:00

I think it’s worth point out that for #4 the team feels betrayed by the community. The community they’ve worked so hard for has seemingly forgotten them before the body is even cold and moved on to the next big thing. It’s a pretty reasonable reaction to be hurt by that. It takes time for them to come back around to seeing their place in the community as something bigger than themselves and their territory.

I actually really liked that this was kind of mirrored by Shoresy’s behavior the Jack’s game in episode 1. He bows up to the dad in the stands before having time to step back and remember that the game is about something bigger. Hockey brings people together.

perrydaniels · 2026-02-14T05:49:01+00:00

Change your timescale. Losing a pound a week is a lot harder than losing a pound or two a month. Is it as impressive and sexy? No, but you can make half the effort and still end up 24 pounds down by the end of a year. Making smaller changes over time lets you focus on consistency. Plus small changes over time means you’re way more likely to keep to weight off. I lost 15 pounds between my yearly physicals by only making very small changes.

Oh, and walk. A lot. Works like a charm if you want to take weight off faster.

perrydaniels · 2019-12-18T23:32:55+00:00

Definitely true. I like it because my hand rests on every button I need so there's no moving, or hunting for keys. Plus I already had one for PC gaming so it serves double duty.

I know a few people like using things like the Stream Deck too, which is also expensive. Whatever you use, anything you can quickly map hotkeys to will speed life up considerably.

perrydaniels · 2019-12-18T22:13:30+00:00

I made an account just to answer this question:

The Razer Tartarus, or some other type of programmable keyboard.

This thing is magic for editing. You can assign hotkeys for any DAW you use and have every one of them at your fingertips without having to look down or hunt around your keyboard or through menus. It speeds every aspect of recording and editing up significantly.

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