Andy Weir talks "Project Hail Mary", from Book to Blockbuster

When you were pitching this to your publishers, you said, Hey, I got an idea for a guy who's kind of trapped in space by himself and he's got to like science his way out of it. At any point did they say to you, Dude, you already wrote this. Yeah, you already wrote that.Well, I mean, I pitched it to him is like, I've got a first contact story and interstellar travel and stuff like that. And, you know, he's not alone. Was there a debate about whether or not to reveal the alien in the movie trailers and things ...