{"id":2325086,"date":"2026-03-12T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325086"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:24:54","slug":"when-hollywood-needs-a-hail-mary-they-turn-to-phil-lord-and-chris-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/when-hollywood-needs-a-hail-mary-they-turn-to-phil-lord-and-chris-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"When Hollywood Needs a \u2018Hail Mary,\u2019 They Turn to Phil Lord and Chris Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The last time <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0520488\/\">Phil Lord<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1844237\/\">Chris Miller<\/a> directed a film, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>, Amazon and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0546168\/\">Apple<\/a> weren\u2019t making movies, Covid hadn\u2019t changed theatergoing habits and the existential threat of AI wasn\u2019t upending the industry. (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0001799\/\">Sony<\/a>, which released <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7398236\/\">Lord<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10305176\/\">Miller<\/a>\u2019s 2014 feature <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2294449\/\">22 Jump Street<\/a>, hadn\u2019t even been hacked yet.) Twelve years have passed since Lord and Miller helmed a movie, and on March 20, they\u2019ll be blasting back into theaters with their most ambitious directorial effort yet, Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 $200 million <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12042730\/\">Project Hail Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unusual for directors who\u2019ve spent that much time out of the director\u2019s chair(s) to remain prominently at the forefront of the business. After being dismissed amid creative differences with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0071326\/\">Lucasfilm<\/a> over their helming of 2017\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3778644\/\">Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/a>, the duo quickly rebounded, winning an Oscar as the producers of 2018\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4633694\/\">Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/a> and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed a film, Netflix, Amazon and Apple weren\u2019t making movies, Covid hadn\u2019t changed theatergoing habits and the existential threat of AI wasn\u2019t upending the industry. (Sony, which released Lord and Miller\u2019s 2014 feature 22 Jump Street, hadn\u2019t even been hacked yet.) 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