Project Hail Mary is a 2026 science-fiction film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, adapted by Drew Goddard from Andy Weir's 2021 novel of the same name, starring Ryan Gosling as a lone astronaut sent to save Earth.
The story follows Ryland Grace, a former schoolteacher who wakes aboard a spacecraft with amnesia and no memory of his mission, and gradually realizes he is humanity's last effort to stop a stellar-dimming microorganism that threatens to trigger a new ice age. Gosling stars and produces, alongside a cast that includes Sandra Hüller; the film opened theatrically on March 20, 2026 and arrived on digital on May 12, 2026.
Lord and Miller direct from a screenplay by Goddard, working from the same Andy Weir novel that established the author after The Martian. Produced on a budget reported near $200 million, the film pairs hard-science problem-solving with a survival narrative, continuing Weir's signature of grounding speculative crisis in worked-through engineering and improvisation.