In an era that has seen cinemas dominated by franchises more than ever before, it’s fairly rare for a movie that isn’t a sequel to anything to be as highly anticipated as Project Hail Mary has been. Since the first trailer, the movie has promised to be one of the first must-see films on the 2026 movie calendar and the sort of science fiction spectacle we haven’t seen since the last time an Andy Weir novel was adapted for the screen.
Matt Damon got an Oscar nomination for his work in The Martian, a movie that was very much a one-man show for the actor. While Ryan Gosling is similarly the only actor on screen for a lot of Project Hail Mary, he does have a co-star in the film, and the two of them are getting a lot of praise from critics.
