Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary — Release Date: March 20, 2026.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, the film adapts Andy Weir’s celebrated 2021 science fiction novel into a large-scale space survival drama starring Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios and releasing internationally through Sony Pictures, this marks Lord and Miller’s first feature directorial return since 22 Jump Street (2014). The cast also features Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung and Milana Vayntrub, with Gosling also attached as producer.

The story centres around Grace, an astronaut who wakes up alone aboard a spacecraft without memory of his identity or purpose. Tube lines, equipment, and the silent environment of deep space provide only fragments of context. As his mind slowly pieces back information, he learns he is the last surviving crew member on a mission intended to save Earth from an extinction-level energy crisis. The planet is losing sunlight, and humanity’s solution lies light-years away near Tau Ceti. Grace becomes the sole remaining hope — not by choice, but by circumstance.

Told through shifting recollection and present-time survival, the narrative unfolds as Grace confronts isolation, scientific problem-solving, and moral responsibility. The film potentially explores themes of human resilience, ethical sacrifice, cosmic perspective, and the unpredictable nature of survival when forced beyond one’s limits. As he experiments, calculates and adapts to the harsh silence of interstellar travel, Grace begins to suspect he may not be entirely alone — opening the story into first-contact territory and collaboration across species, as the novel is known for.

Large-scale visual storytelling, immersive space environments and a character-driven performance from Gosling shape the project as one of 2026’s anticipated sci-fi releases. With Phil Lord and Christopher Miller balancing spectacle with emotional intelligence, Project Hail Mary positions itself as a survival epic rooted in science, ingenuity and the fragile hope of humanity.

Shot for IMAX presentation, the film aims to deliver both intimate tension and expansive cosmic scale, carrying forward Andy Weir’s legacy of grounded science fiction following The Martian.