In the early weeks of the pandemic, Ryan Gosling received the manuscript for Project Hail Mary a full year before The Martian author Andy Weir published the sci-fi space novel. The actor was hooked. Just as the world was going into lockdown and facing an existential crisis, came along the story of a scientist and an alien nicknamed Rocky working together, step by step, to stop stars from dying across the galaxy. The timing couldn’t be more opportune.
Gosling snapped up the rights to star in and produce a movie adaptation of Weir’s novel. He brought on former Sony studio chief Amy Pascal to help produce and assemble the key pieces in spring 2020, including hiring Phil Lord and Chris Miller to direct, with Drew Goddard later hired to write. While the rights project was initially set up at MGM for $3 million, the official deal agreeing to pony up
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