Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary is getting adapted into a movie, with Ryan Gosling (Barbie, pictured above) on board to star and produce, Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (the Spider-Verse films) directing, and Drew Goddard (The Martian, Netflix’s Daredevil series) penning the script. In addition to Gosling, directors Lord and Miller as well as Amy Pascal, Aditya Sood, Rachel O’Connor, and Weir are also on board to produce, with Pascal pulling the whole project together.
The movie comes from Amazon MGM Studios, which announced during CinemaCon today (per Deadline) that the film would premiere in theaters (rather than Prime Video) sometime in 2026. Gosling is undoubtedly playing the story’s protagonist, Ryland Grace.
Here’s the blurb for Weir’s book, to give you a sense of the story:
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
No news yet on who else might be in the film in a key role (if you know, you know), and no news on when exactly in 2026 we’ll see Project Hail Mary land at a theater near you.
