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Ryan Gosling goes solo in space for film ‘Project Hail Mary’

Ryan Gosling plays Dr. Ryland Grace, who must save humanity from a sun-threatening organism while forming a friendship with an alien, in a film opening this Friday.

  • On Friday, Amazon MGM Studios releases Project Hail Mary in U.S. theaters, a science fiction drama directed by Philip Lord and Christopher Miller. Actor Ryan Gosling stars as Dr. Ryland Grace, a science teacher who wakes alone on a spacecraft tasked with saving humanity.
  • Forced onto a spacecraft by government official Sandra Hüller, Grace wakes up 11.9 light-years from Earth with amnesia. He must stop the rapacious organism Astrophage, which threatens to cool the sun and trigger a new ice age.
  • An alien ship soon docks nearby, carrying engineer Rocky, whose voice is provided by James Ortiz. Instead of conflict, Grace and Rocky team up to run experiments and solve problems together.
  • Beyond starring in the film, Gosling helped shape the project as a producer after author Andy Weir shared the unpublished manuscript. The actor found it "kind of liberating" to play an ordinary person rather than a stoic hero.
  • Amazon MGM Studios hopes the film matches the success of 2015's The Martian, which grossed more than $600 million. Many view Project Hail Mary as a spiritual sequel to that earlier space-set science fiction story.
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On March 19, "Der Astronaut - Project Hail Mary" appears in German cinemas, an eagerly awaited sci-fi film by the "The Lego Movie" maker Phil Lord (50) and Chris Miller (50).Superstar Ryan Gosling (45) embarks on an adventurous journey into the depths of space to save no less than the entire blue planet and all its inhabitants.Oscarnominated German actress Sandra Hüller (47) plays the character Eva Stratt at Gosling's side. The strict ESA employ…

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