Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller got their start in animation with 2009's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and it's a medium the duo has returned to frequently in the almost-two-decades since.
Their most recent – and ambitious – endeavor has been the Spider-Verse franchise, a visual feast that combines a bunch of different animation styles to convey mutliple alternate universes and versions of Spider-Man (Lord wrote 2019's Into the Spider-Verse, and the pair re-teamed to pen 2023's Across the Spider-Verse and the upcoming Beyond the Spider-Verse).
