Ryan Gosling heads to space in Project Hail Mary, the big-budget sci-fi adventure movie from Oscar-winning directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller that hit theaters this weekend. The film, adapted from Andy Weir’s bestselling novel of the same name, finds school teacher Ryland Grace immersed in a top-secret government operation. The sun is dying, and he’s enlisted to find out why and to stop it.
If I didn’t mention the people involved in the movie, that description could easily be pegged to a variety of space disaster films that have come and gone. But this ain’t no Michael Bay movie. In fact, Project Hail Mary is unlike most of its kind in that the story avoids the bleak, hopeless tone that comes with galactic doom-and-gloom, race-against-time survival tales. And there’s an alien in there, to boot.
When I settled in for the Imax press screening, the person introducing Project Hail Mary said
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