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Ryan Gosling to Star in Sci-Fi Film 'Project Hail Mary' by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

other · 2026-04-30

Ryan Gosling will lead the cast of 'Project Hail Mary', a space adventure film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on Andy Weir's novel. The story follows Ryland Grace, who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of his identity or how he got there. The film joins a lineage of recent space epics like 'Interstellar', 'The Martian', 'Gravity', 'Ad Astra', and 'First Man', in which Gosling previously portrayed Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission.

Key facts

  • Ryan Gosling stars in 'Project Hail Mary'.
  • Film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
  • Based on Andy Weir's novel 'Project Hail Mary'.
  • Protagonist Ryland Grace wakes up with amnesia on a spaceship.
  • Gosling previously played Neil Armstrong in 'First Man'.
  • Comparable to 'Interstellar', 'The Martian', 'Gravity', 'Ad Astra'.
  • Film is a space survival story with an unlikely friendship.
  • Gosling's character was the first man on the Moon in 'First Man'.

Entities

Artists

  • Ryan Gosling
  • Phil Lord
  • Christopher Miller
  • Andy Weir
  • Neil Armstrong

Institutions

  • NASA

Locations

  • Moon

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