A puppet made me cry and all I got was this t-shirt

In this week's newsletter, Amy draws parallels between the collaborative themes of "Project Hail Mary" and the massive team effort behind the newly released Talos Year in Review report.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.   Anyone who spoke with me in the last several weeks has had to deal with me loudly waiting in anticipation for the long-awaited “Project Hail Mary” movie adaptation.  I read (and cried over) the book by Andy Weir, who’s also the author of “The Martian,” about a year ago and, shortly after, found out it was being made into a movie.

  (I know what you’re thinking: Two movie-themed editions in two weeks?  It’s every cinephile’s dream! )  Anyway, the story centers around a biologist and science teacher named Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), who wakes up from a coma on a spaceship lightyears away from Earth, his two crewmembers long dead.  Our planet’s sun is slowly dimming, its energy being consumed by alien microbes called “astrophage” that are infecting all the stars in our stellar neighborhood — except one.

Grace’s task is to figure out why this star is unaffected and send the solution back to Earth.  It's a one-way trip, and he’ll eventually die in space alone...  or so he thinks.   The movie met 99. 9% of my expectations, which is rare for an adaptation.  The humor was spot-on, the soundtrack was gorgeous, and the puppetry — yes, the  puppetry  (mild spoilers for Rocky, Grace’s new alien friend) — was out-of-this-world.