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They already had to cut out a big chunk from the middle of The Martian (which then broke the I've got no radio, so no one can give me permission to board, so I'm now the first space pirate joke, which they decided to keep anyway), and Project Hail Mary is a much longer book - it's about as thick as Dune, which became two movies and still cut loads. Something major will have to change if they're going to give it an acceptable runtime.
It's nowhere near as complicated as dune though. They can cut out a lot of the flashbacks.
If they cut too many of the flashbacks, it gets rid of, or at least erodes, the WTF? Where am I and how did I get here and why? part of the book, which is a pretty major part of it.
They don't need endless scenes of meetings. Those will probably go.
Regardless, I just hope the main character isn't as annoying as he was in the book. (He shouldn't be mr cool, either)