Project Hail Mary (2026)
Believe in the Hail Mary.
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
In Project Hail Mary, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “interstellar rescue”. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing cooperation, sacrifice, survival, alien, science.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)E8/E14 · rare rung · sacrifice
War of the Worlds (2005)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E14 · rare rung · survival
Species (1995)E14 · rare rung · survivalSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
GANTZ:O (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Army of the Dead (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Life (2017)consciousness in aliens · orbital lab horror
Bugonia (2025)consciousness in aliens · alien-conspiracy thriller
The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014)consciousness in aliens · ninja‑spirit cosmos
Rim of the World (2019)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)consciousness in aliens · interstellar warSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Alienoid (2022)consciousness in machines · alien, survival
Restart the Earth (2021)consciousness in machines · sacrifice, survival
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)consciousness in animals · survival
Legion (2010)consciousness carried elsewhere · survival
The Monster Squad (1987)consciousness in monsters · survival
BloodRayne (2005)consciousness in monsters · survival
