They should have sent a poet,” says Jodie Foster, in an immortal line from “Contact” when her character meets extraterrestrials for the first time. In “Project Hail Mary,” we find ...

Yahphet Kotto, who played Parker, the chief engineer in Ridley Scott's iconic "Alien," was offered the roles of Captain ...

With a global box office opening of $140.9 million, hope, originality, and Ryan Gosling all helped propel 'Project Hail Mary' to a huge weekend.

"Project Hail Mary," starring Ryan Gosling as a scientist named Ryland Grace who befriends an alien in space, is already ...

Project Hail Mary and Spaceman may have the same lone astronaut and the same spider-like alien sidekick, but the direction ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a deeply faithful adaptation of Andy Weir's book, but it's impossible to convert from page to film ...

Author Andy Weir discusses his favorite scenes from the Amazon MGM film adaptation of his beloved novel Project Hail Mary, including the high-stakes Adrian atmospheric sampling sequence and Rocky's ...

It's rare that a film adaptation outshines its source material but science fiction has given us several remarkable examples where the movie not only matched the ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel on which its based as well as the book The Martian, is fundamentally an ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

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. I ...

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" sticks to Andy Weir's book of the same name pretty closely, though several scenes from the film weren't in the novel.