Amazon’s upcoming Project Hail Mary is setting itself up as a companion piece to 2015’s The Martian. Both are based on books by Andy Weir, follow solitary space adventurers, and have scripts written by veteran TV writer Drew Goddard. But while The Martian was directed by sci-fi legend Ridley Scott, Project Hail Mary is being helmed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the minds behind Sony’s Oscar-winning Spider-Verse trilogy.
Lord and Miller’s signature creative tone looks to be present as well. The story follows Dr. Ryland Grace (Gosling), a molecular biologist sent on a last-ditch effort to save the Earth from a galactic catastrophe. But as a new trailer shows, he’s not so alone after all, as he’s joined by a strange alien who finds an interesting way to communicate. Check it all out below.
