PROJECT HAIL MARY

Director: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, Ken Leung, Liz Kingsman, James Ortiz

Author Andy Weir had a successful page to screen adaption with The Martian and now he has another winner on his hands with the movie adaptation of his book Project Hail Mary. Much like he did with The Martian, Andy Weir takes the audience into the impossible depths of space. We find Ryan Gosling’s character, Ryland Grace, waking up from an induced coma. He’s the only surviving member of his three-person team that’s been in space for quite some team. He realizes that he’s so far into space there’s no feasible way to return to Earth. The film uses extensive flashbacks in the weeks leading up to the mission. Ryland was just an ordinary middle school science teacher, but he is wickedly smarter than he gives himself credit for. He’s brought in to assist on a potential space disaster as there is a series of dots that have been found between Venus and the Sun. These dots appear to be multiplying and blocking out the Sun at a rapid pace posing a great danger for Earth’s climate. Ryland not only figures out what these dots are but finds himself unwillingly part of this one-way suicide mission in space known as “Project Hail Mary.” Sandra Huller stars as Eva Stratt, who is the mission leader on “Project Hail Mary.” In theaters

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