Project Hail Mary directors showed off an "embarrassing" 225-minute cut to fellow filmmakers and received blunt feedback: "We thought everything was charming"

Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller say they screened a 225-minute cut of the film… and that the general consensus was to “get it way shorter.”

“Our first official test screening went great, but we do a lot of earlier screenings for friends and family and other filmmakers and writers,” Miller told Happy Sad Confused. “This movie was massive. When we finally got the assembly cut down to under four hours long, we subjected some filmmaker friends of ours to a three-hour and 45-minute cut of the movie, which was embarrassing.”