A year ago, Ryan Gosling — coming off his role as Ken in 2023’s Barbie — turned up in Las Vegas for Amazon MGM Studios‘ first official presentation at CinemaCon by sharing footage of Project Hail Mary, a film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel about a geeky and but witty high-school teacher who finds himself hurtling through space on a mission to stop the sun from dimming and destroying life everywhere. Along the way, he meets a craggy liked-alien he names “Rocky.”
The dream team behind the sleeper hit movie — as of April 19, it had already passed up the entire domestic runs of Dune: Part II and Gravity with more than $285 million in domestic sales and nearly $600 million globally — include directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, screenwriter Drew Goddard, who adapted Weir’s The Martian for Fox, new installed film head Courtenay Valenti, who had spent
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