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Very good interview. Gift link.
What the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Learned From a Firing
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/movies/project-hail-mary-phil-lord-christopher-miller.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V1A.vOi8.iuKhMPYK7FI3&smid=nytcore-ios-share
It is starting to feel like an industry famous for horrible workplaces is starting to be recognized as an industry famous for being a horrible workplace.
Working in a kitchen as celebrated as this takes a huge amount of dedication, discipline, and desire to stick it out. This echoes across all creative pursuits that become businesses. From video games, to film, VFX, cooking, writing. The desire to be a part of something incredible can subsume a sense of self respect.
like I said, exhausting
(Grogu, in this shot for a piece whose theme is “CGI BAD”, is computer graphics made by computer graphics artists)
it's almost as though this happens ALL THE TIME and it's totally exhausting
https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/12/correcting-some-skeleton-crew.html
the piece is worse than the headline and deeply misleads
TO BE CLEAR:
- in half the shots in which he appears, Rocky is computer graphics animation
- Project Hail Mary used LED screens
- Top Gun Maverick had all-CG jet sequences, the Dune films had all-CG sequences, Alien Romulus had all-CG aliens
The discourse is still so bad. It's one thing when internet bozo film bros spread misinformation, but when the trades just say stupid stuff like this it's just so overwhelming and depressing.
Fun fact: even those movies that you think "rely on 'CGI'" have gigantic practical effects work!
Guy English
