‘Project Hail Mary’ Made an Aircraft Continuity Error. Here’s How to Spot It. |
‘Project Hail Mary’ Made an Aircraft Continuity Error. Here’s How to Spot It.
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In one scene, the film’s main character arrives at his destination in an F/A-18 Super Hornet—but as he disembarks, the plane is nowhere to be found.
Project Hail Mary is Hollywood’s biggest film of the year to date. And like 2022’s highest-grossing film, Top Gun: Maverick, Project Hail Mary features naval aviation, albeit to a much smaller extent. Multiple aircraft are depicted in the film, along with one US supercarrier.
Project Hail Mary is not about naval aviation. It is a science fiction film about a science teacher, Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), who awakens on a spaceship in another solar system—initially with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. Most of the film takes place in outer space, with scenes on Earth interspersed in flashbacks.
Naval aviation plays a fairly small role in the film.........