{"id":25603,"date":"2026-02-26T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/25603\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:34:07","slug":"the-project-hail-mary-team-explains-how-that-lego-came-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/25603\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Project Hail Mary’ Team Explains How That Lego Came to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Lego announced a set<\/a> for the upcoming Project Hail Mary, many were excited, but more were surprised. Lego makes sets based on big movies all the time, but those are almost always from very well-established brands<\/a>: Star Wars, Nintendo, Marvel, Minecraft, Lord of the Rings, etc. But here was a set for a PG-13 sci-fi movie based on a one-off novel about a man and an alien<\/a> attempting to save their worlds through science. It is not a typical Lego set. But directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller wanted one anyway.<\/p>\n

Speaking to io9 at the Los Angeles press junket for Project Hail Mary, Lord and Miller, who directed The Lego Movie and produced its sequel<\/a>, admitted that their past relationship with the company \u201chelped them a lot\u201d in terms of getting this set made.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t normally do things that are not based on already successful franchises. Like a one-off movie like this, that\u2019s its own thing,\u201d Miller said. \u201cBut we told them to trust us. And we said, \u2018Come to the set and see what it is and how special it is.’\u201d<\/p>\n

So, after \u201ca million invitations,\u201d the Lego team arrived in London to visit the set of Project Hail Mary. \u201cThen we secretly cut a whole 10-minute piece to show them, and it blew them away,\u201d Lord said. \u201cThey understood how special the movie was and how Lego fans were going to respond to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they found a way to make a very cool set,\u201d Miller added.<\/p>\n

\"Lego\u00a9 Lego <\/p>\n

Ryan Gosling, the star of Project Hail Mary, agrees. \u201cThe Lego set\u2019s amazing,\u201d Gosling told io9. \u201cIt\u2019s very surreal. It rotates, and it does the different gravity configurations. It\u2019s pretty awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s awesome in the same way that Project Hail Mary is awesome.<\/a> The film hits theaters on March 20, and tickets are on sale now. The Project Hail Mary Lego set will be released on March 1. Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Lego announced a set for the upcoming Project Hail Mary, many were excited, but more were surprised.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6050],"tags":[16687,4248,6051,16688,6412,6514],"class_list":["post-25603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lego","tag-chris-miller","tag-lego","tag-lego-group","tag-phil-lord","tag-project-hail-mary","tag-ryan-gosling"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}