Sure, most Americans are glued to their TVs for today’s Super Bowl and/or the Winter Olympics. But for those with a non-game mindset, Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer for its upcoming space odyssey Project Hail MaryBased on Andy Weir (Martian) The best-selling novel of 2021 about a biologist-turned-schoolteacher with amnesia in space.
As previously reported, Amazon MGM Studios acquired the rights to Weir’s novel before it was published and brought in Drew Goddard to write the screenplay. (Godard also wrote the adapted screenplay for MartianSo he’s an excellent choice.) The studio tapped Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie) to direct and signed Ryan Gosling to star. According to official basis:
Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memories return, he begins to uncover his mission: to solve the mystery of the mysterious substance that caused the sun to die. She must use her scientific knowledge and unconventional ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means she won’t have to do it alone.
In addition to Gosling, the cast includes Sandra Huller as the head of the Hail Mary project and Ryland’s superior; Milana Vayntrub as Project astronaut Olesya Ilyukhina; Ken Leung as Project astronaut Yao Li-ji; Liz Kingsman as Shapiro; Orion Lee as She; And James Ortiz names Ryland as Rocky, a new life form.
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