Ryan Gosling stars in Project Hail Mary.
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Project Hail Mary is the latest Andy Weir joint to make it to the big screen. The movie, which is based on Weir’s 2022 novel of the same name, was written by Drew Goddard (Daredevil, The Martian) and directed by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse‘s Phil Lord and Chris Miller and is set to hit theaters everywhere on March 20. Ryan Gosling stars as a school teacher who gets thrown into an impossible scenario. He’s rocketed into outer space to fix a mysterious anomaly that threatens the future of Earth’s existence.
If the concept of having the fate of humanity lie in the hands of an ill-equipped underdog who has to go to outer space to accomplish the impossible feels familiar, it should. You’ve seen a similar storyline play out in a handful of sci-fi movies, such as Armageddon, Deep Impact and Moonfall.
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