Project Hail Mary is doing so well at the global box office that there’s talk of turning it into a franchise with a sequel. The Ryan Gosling-fronted adaptation of the novel of the same name launched ...

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And we have liftoff! “Project Hail Mary,” a space-set epic starring Ryan Gosling as a science teacher who is tasked with saving the planet, rocketed to $140.9 million at the global box office. Those ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...

“Project Hail Mary” is such an accomplishment, such an overwhelming, often dazzling thriller full of emotion and heart and some really good jokes, that it’s easy to forget that this is the first ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller take us deep inside the making of their sci-fi crowd-pleaser. Plus, the lessons of Solo and the state of the Spider-Verse Miller: Trying to have engagement ...

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While the action in Project Hail Mary is closely adapted from Weir’s bestselling novel, Gosling reveals that the looseness normally associated with improv comedy was a vital part of the process for ...