Project Hail Mary (2026) is a science fiction adventure film based on Andy Weir’s bestselling novel, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and starring Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up alone aboard a spacecraft light-years from Earth, with two dead crewmates beside him and no memory of who he is or why he is there.

As fragments of memory slowly return, Grace pieces together a terrifying truth: a microscopic organism called Astrophage is feeding on the sun, dimming its light and slowly freezing all life on Earth. Recruited almost by accident because of his scientific mind, Grace turns out to be humanity’s last hope, sent on a desperate mission to a distant star whose light, mysteriously, is not dimming — and where an answer to the crisis might be found.

Alone in the dark, Grace survives on pure ingenuity, solving one life-or-death problem after another with makeshift tools, endless experiments and stubborn good humour. Then comes a discovery that changes everything: another ship, and another desperate traveller trying to save his own world from the same threat. Grace names the friendly alien Rocky, and the two strangers — who cannot even share the same air — slowly build one of the most unlikely and moving friendships ever put on screen.

Intercut with the mission are Grace’s returning memories of Earth, where Sandra Hüller plays Eva Stratt, the formidable, no-nonsense chief who assembled the Hail Mary project and made its hardest choices without flinching. Blending hard science with warmth and wit, the film becomes a story about sacrifice, cooperation and hope — and about how one ordinary, frightened man, helped by a friend unlike any other, can carry the fate of two worlds on his shoulders.

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