What the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Learned From a Firing

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.Phil Lord, left, and Christopher Miller. “It was almost contrarian to make a movie that’s so affirming about a topic that is on everyone’s mind, which is this idea that we’re doomed,” Lord said.