That’s exactly what Project Hail Mary, based on The Martian author Andy Weir’s hard sci-fi novel, is wrestling with. In the movie, not-so-heroic science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is blasted ...

Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama.

Adapting the book was a similar experience for the Project Hail Mary production team, except the stakes were much lower. Screenwriter Drew Goddard knew what the book meant to fans ...

Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in PROJECT HAIL MARY, from Amazon MGM Studios. Photo credit: Jonathan Olley. © 2026 Amazon ...

Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller, stars of "Project Hail Mary," speak with "CBS Mornings" about the highly-anticipated movie, what it was like acting alongside the puppeteers behind alien Rocky and why ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

The film focuses on Dr. Ryland Grace and the Eridian alien Rocky as they team up to save their respective planets from destruction ...

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

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The cross-species friendship powers this touching film from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It has been described as 'E.T.' meets 'Interstellar' but that doesn't hint at its humanity.

The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and ...