Should You Stay After Project Hail Mary? The Post-Credits Verdict
With Phil Lord and Chris Miller at the helm, Project Hail Mary rockets Andy Weir’s 2021 novel onto the big screen, following a stranded science teacher slowly piecing his memory together aboard a lone spacecraft. The big question: should you stay through the credits for a mid- or post-credits tease?
If you’re weighing whether to camp out through the credits for Project Hail Mary, here’s the straight answer and a tiny wrinkle you might care about.
Should you stay through the credits?
No mid-credits or post-credits scenes. Once the credits start, you’re not missing a hidden epilogue or surprise cameo. The movie does what it came to do and calls it a day.
The tiny flourish at the very, very end
If you hang to the absolute last frame, four astronaut-style mission patches pop up on screen. It’s a cute touch, not a scene. They’re basically company logos dressed as suit badges, capped with a small in-joke:
- PPI
- Open Invite Films
- Lord Miller Productions
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) — the lion’s head moves and you can hear Rocky’s sounds over it
If you love a little nerdy button on the credits, wait it out. If not, you’re fine to head out when the crawl begins.
Quick refresher on what this is
Project Hail Mary is the Phil Lord and Chris Miller sci-fi adventure based on Andy Weir’s 2021 novel. It follows a middle-school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spacecraft with Swiss-cheese memory. As it comes back, he realizes he’s on a last-chance mission to keep a strange organism from dimming the sun and wiping us out. And no, he might not be totally alone out there.
Sequel talk (for the curious)
No sequel’s been announced. The film plays as a complete story and doesn’t pause to tee up Part 2. That said, Weir hasn’t slammed the door on more, he just isn’t forcing it while he focuses on a new standalone book. As he put it:
"I know, I know, and many have pointed that out, but I don’t feel like I have anything strong enough to run with yet. I’m working on this other story. Hopefully, in time, I’ve got bits and pieces of good ideas for sequels, but not enough to run with. If I’m going to sequel it, I want it to be good."
Translation: maybe someday, if the idea actually sings.