Project Hail Mary ending spoilers follow.
Project Hail Mary has become one of the most-acclaimed films of the year so far thanks to its stellar lead performance by Ryan Gosling, extremely lovable supporting character in Rocky, and a well-crafted story the streamlines a lot of the source material's hard science into something accessible and emotional.
That doesn't mean that parts of Andy Weir's novel didn't make it in the film in smaller, more subtle ways.
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In the book, the character Eva Stratt has a lot more to do, and makes some really tough decisions in order to try and preserve Earth's future.
A lot of it had to be cut for time, but at Weir's suggestion, a tattoo on her neck that is only briefly visible at the end of the film when we see the older Stratt, hints that she did try to implement some of those tough decisions... and paid a price for it.
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Speaking to Collider, co-director Phil Lord said: "One of the things that we kept trying to cram into the movie and just didn't stick was this idea that after Grace went off to space, people did not cooperate.
"The governments turned on [Eva] and dragged her before a criminal court and sent her to prison. And she has a tattoo — this came from Andy [Weir], his idea — so she has a tattoo that says, 'I've been in French prison for life.'"
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Other director Chris Miller explained a bit more about the what the tattoo actually looks like and how she got out, stating: "She has a little tattoo that has a V with a line through it — meaning V as in life and then the line meaning without parole.
"So Andy thought that she had gone to prison without parole, but then had broken out of prison from her connections, and then was sort of on the lam trying to still trying to save the world."
Project Hail Mary is out in cinemas now.
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