Amazon MGM has released a new trailer for Project Hail Mary, giving us the clearest look yet at Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi stranded astronaut’s journey. Three minutes of deep space horror, a very strange new friend, and a totally on-the-nose blast of Oasis’ “Champagne Supernova.” Watch the trailer above and read more below.
Ryland Grace wakes up alone…until he wakes up.
New footage shows Dr. Ryland Grace (Gosling) drifting light years from Earth, trying to remember who he is and why he’s there. While exploring the ship, he encounters an extraterrestrial visitor. Even his small figure was depicted in the visitor. “Is it me?” he asks.
Introducing Rocky, a rock-based alien on an anti-extinction mission of his own. Their awkward first contact quickly becomes the film’s emotional backbone. Two people who cannot share the same atmosphere must work together if one of them is to survive.
Sandra Hüller will lead the Earth-side mission, with Lionel Boyce, Ken Leon and Milana Weintrub rounding out the cast.
Project Hail Mary, based on the novel by Andy Weir, reunites his work with a filmmaker who knows how to balance science, stakes, and humor. The film will be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the duo behind The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street movies, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and written by Drew Goddard (World War Z, The Cabin in the Woods), who also adapted The Martian for Ridley Scott. Gosling, Weir, Aditya Sood and Rachel O’Connor will produce, with Goddard serving as executive producer.
Behind the Scenes: A Hard Movie That Refuses to Make It Easy
Speaking in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con (as quoted by Gizmodo), Miller said, “There’s a lot of things that make it difficult,” including working in zero gravity, centrifugal gravity, and the wall that has to exist between Grace and Rocky because it’s “a different vibe.” For most works, it will be an invitation to simplify, but as he says, “We’re not going to change everything that makes it difficult. We’re going to stay true to it. And that difficulty is what makes it interesting and what makes it special.”
Mr. Lord summed up their philosophy with a hardware analogy, which drew loud laughter from the audience. “We respectfully kept saying this movie was on the PC, not the Mac,” he said. “Movies are machines, and ships are machines. Sometimes they’re beautiful, and sometimes they’re not.”
Their efforts extend to Rocky himself. Rather than going completely digital, they commissioned Lucasfilm creature legend Neal Scanlan to build working puppets, which were operated on set by puppeteer James Ortiz and a small team called the “Rocketeers.” Miller said the end result is a blend of puppetry and animation, with Rocky “so vivid that I would die for this character.”
release date
Project Hail Mary will be released in Australian cinemas on March 19, 2026 and in US cinemas on March 20.
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