Where many find success in determining their lane and staying inside of it, Drew Goddard has cobbled together one of the more interesting Hollywood careers by doing the opposite. The screenwriter has spent the last two decades defying predictability by bouncing between media and genres, with one major exception: he’s a sucker for Andy Weir adaptations.
Goddard first penned the script to Ridley Scott’s 2015 adaptation of the author’s The Martian, a screenplay that scored him an Oscar nomination. A decade later, he’s back with Weir’s Project Hail Mary. The Ryan Gosling vehicle, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, arrives in theaters Friday. And, like The Martian before it, the film is essentially about one guy alone in space talking to himself.
Project Hail Mary came with a lofty price tag, with a reported budget of $248 million ($200 million after tax credits, per Puck), and Goddard suggests that the
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