Project Hail Mary spares no expense. Combining a $200 million dollar price tag with Ryan Gosling's supernova star power, bestselling source material from The Martian author Andy Weir, and Spider-Verse duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller at the helm, all the components are there for a bonafide blockbuster. Happily, the result is a genuinely moving, visually striking, and all-round exciting space adventure that combines some lofty science with good-old-fashioned problem-solving. Project Hail Mary follows Gosling's Ryland Grace, a scientist-turned-schoolteacher who is drafted into a mission to save the sun. A mysterious alien microbe is feasting on and dimming the star, which, in a few decades, would have catastrophic effects for humanity. There is one star in the universe resisting the microbe, however, so Grace and two other scientists embark on a one-way trip to the distant reaches of space to investigate. When they arrive, Grace awakens from his induced coma to discover his fellow astronauts have perished, and the future of humanity rests on his shoulders alone. Or, not quite. Also investigating the star is an alien Grace dubs Rocky, whose own home planet is under threat from the microbe. Together, the unlikely duo work to save their respective home worlds from disaster.
