News project hail mary Ryan Gosling Might Reluctantly Save the World in Project Hail Mary They’re all astronauts; he’s just Ken. By Molly Templeton | Published on June 30, 2025 Screenshot: Amazon MGM Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Amazon MGM Studios It’s been a long minute since we had a huge blockbuster about people reluctantly going to space to save the world. In the trailer for Project Hail Mary—based on the novel by The Martian author Andy Weir—there’s just one guy, though. (Readers of the novel, or even just of the synopsis of the novel, will know this is not exactly the case, though the trailer seems to really want you to think he’s all by his lonesome the whole time.) And he’s not even an astronaut. No, Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is a middle school science teacher who just so happens to have studied something that might be useful at a moment when all the stars are getting “infected” with something dire and the sun is gonna die, taking all life on Earth with it. No big deal, buddy! You got this! Project Hail Mary was, like Weir’s The Martian, a huge smash, and the movie looks to follow in its footsteps. The movie is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and written by Drew Goddard, who also wrote the adaptation of The Martian. Like that story, Project Hail Mary centers on one guy trying to do the work of many people while not dying in space. This time there’s just a whole lot more at stake. And whatever this trailer may or may not give away plot-wise, Gosling feels note-perfect as an amiable guy who’s in way over his insecure little head. And he gets to make a friend! This deliciously long trailer kind of feels like it might be showing us the whole movie, but I’m informed by reliable sources (people who read the book) that it really, really isn’t. You’ll have to wait a while to find out for yourself, though: The movie is in theaters March 2o, 2026.[end-mark] The post Ryan Gosling Might Reluctantly Save the World in <i>Project Hail Mary</i> appeared first on Reactor.