INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller co-direct Project Hail Mary, based on Andy Weir's 2021 novel.
We here at Ars were big
fans of 2015's The Martian, adapted from Andy Weir's novel of the same name
So our interest was naturally piqued when he heard about a new film, Project Hail Mary, based on Weir's bestselling 2021 novel
nothing that isn't in the trailer.)The studio acquired the rights for Weir's novel before it was even published and brought on Drew Goddard
(Goddard also wrote the adapted screenplay for The Martian, so it's an excellent choice.) They tapped Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
(Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The LEGO Movie) to direct and signed on Ryan Gosling to star.Judging by the trailer, the film should
follow the book fairly closely
It opens with a very hairy Ryland Grace (Gosling) waking up on a spaceship with amnesia and freaking out at being several light-years from
Cue the flashbacks, showing a clean-shaven Grace teaching middle school students before being approached about serving on a space mission to
The sun is dying, as are a bunch of stars save for one, and scientists don't know why, but since Grace is a former molecular biologist, he
might be able to figure out what's going on.
