Rock and Man, Burnin’ Out Their Fuses Up There Alone: “Project Hail Mary,” “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” and “The Pout-Pout Fish”

Having not read the Andy Weir novel on which their film is based, it’s hard to tell if Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were the right directors for the science-fiction adventure Project Hail Mary, or – for the book’s many admirers, and maybe a few of us newbies – the absolute wrong ones.