When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. Instead, he was playing off ...

If you believe humans are bound to discover extra-terrestrial life, you probably fall into one of two broad camps. Either you ...

At SXSW, Steven Spielberg shared his belief in extraterrestrial life, reflected on "E.T." and warned against AI replacing ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...

Hello, I'm Ryan Gosling. I'm Chris Miller. I'm Phil Lord. And I'm Andy Weir. And we are gonna answer. the most searched questions about Project Hail Mary. [energetic music] Okay.

Disaster movies tend to follow a standard format. They typically start with some crisis, maybe a deadly inferno, a rogue asteroid or even an alien invasion.

That's a reasonably good précis of Weir's third novel, Project Hail Mary, which has now been adapted into blockbuster movie form. Directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord and starring Ryan Gosling, it's ...

Project Hail Mary is not to be missed.

Sci-fi stories ask “what if,” and they answer “then what.” Whether the film is an exciting blockbuster, a tiny and ambitious ...

The last time Drew Goddard adapted one of Andy Weir’s books, it earned him an Oscar nomination. Plus, “The Martian,” the film that Goddard wrote, was a blockbuster hit. But when he got the call to ...

"Project Hail Mary" is such an accomplishment, such an overwhelming, often dazzling thriller full of emotion and heart and some really good jokes, that it's easy to forget that this is the first ...