Project Hail Mary -- the Ryan Gosling-led 2026 movie schedule entry -- is sure to excite book lovers and sci-fi fans alike. It follows the story of a high school science teacher who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory, but soon discovers he has an important mission to undertake. Given the premise of this book-to-screen adaptation, there's a lot of science involved, and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller asked astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson for his thoughts on whether they nailed that material.
An esteemed astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has no problem discussing whether a movie is scientifically accurate. Phil Lord and Chris Miller recently spoke with Sirius XM's Julia Cunningham and recalled asking Tyson for his reaction to Project Hail Mary, which is based on Andy Weir's 2021 book of the same name. Tyson apparently attended a premiere, as Lord and Miller explained to Cunningham:
