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Ryan Gosling heads to space in 'Project Hail Mary'

Ryan Gosling stars as a scientist-turned-astronaut tackling a solar threat using rigorous science and fictional astrophage in this adaptation of Andy Weir's bestselling novel.

  • On Friday, Oscar‑nominated actor Ryan Gosling returns to space as an untrained astronaut in Project Hail Mary, which opens widely in Los Angeles this weekend.
  • Author Andy Weir's novels provide the blueprint, as Project Hail Mary adapts his best-selling novel continuing his science-heavy, lone-protagonist survival tales.
  • Gosling's character says, 'I put the 'not' in astronaut. I've never done a space walk I can't even moon walk!' as he runs experiments alone in space to save Earth, joined by Rocky and recruited by Sandra Huller.
  • Oscar‑nominated casting and a best‑selling Weir source boost the film's profile, while Andy Weir's earlier success with The Martian raises cultural and box-office expectations.
  • Grounded in real astronomy, advisers shaped the film's scientific details, with astrophage conceived using plausible biology and astronomer Andy Howell guiding star depictions like Betelgeuse and Tau Ceti.
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In "Hail Mary Project", by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Ryan Gosling is a scientist working with an alien to save their worlds.

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Nature broke the news in United Kingdom on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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