Watch Phil Lord and Chris Miller Go Deep on ‘Project Hail Mary’ Puppetry, Sandra Hüller’s Karaoke, and Making People ‘Cry About a Rock’

Watch Phil Lord and Chris Miller Go Deep on ‘Project Hail Mary’ Puppetry, Sandra Hüller’s Karaoke, and Making People ‘Cry About a Rock’

“Project Hail Mary” was “the hardest movie” that Phil Lord and Chris Miller ever made — and they’re able to show their work. The filmmaking duo behind one of the year’s biggest hits built a deck to lead an audience through the challenging (but positive!) production process in a keynote presentation at IndieWire‘s Future of Filmmaking 2026 Summit presented by AT&T. The one-hour presentation saw Lord and Miller dig into the behind-the-scenes proce…