Phil Lord and Christopher Miller co-direct Challenge Hail Mary, based mostly on Andy Weir’s 2021 novel.
We right here at Ars have been large followers of 2015’s The Martian, tailored from Andy Weir’s novel of the identical title. So our curiosity was naturally piqued when he heard a few new movie, Challenge Hail Mary, based mostly on Weir’s bestselling 2021 novel. Amazon MGM Studios simply launched the primary trailer, and the film appears nice—very a lot within the vein of The Martian.
(Some spoilers under, however nothing that is not within the trailer.)
The studio acquired the rights for Weir’s novel earlier than it was even printed and introduced on Drew Goddard to jot down the screenplay. (Goddard additionally wrote the tailored screenplay for The Martian, so it is a wonderful selection.) They tapped Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Probability of Meatballs, The LEGO Film) to direct and signed on Ryan Gosling to star.
Judging by the trailer, the movie ought to observe the e book pretty carefully. It opens with a really bushy Ryland Grace (Gosling) waking up on a spaceship with amnesia and freaking out at being a number of light-years from his residence. Cue the flashbacks, exhibiting a clean-shaven Grace educating center college college students earlier than being approached about serving on an area mission to save lots of the world. The solar is dying, as are a bunch of stars save for one, and scientists do not know why, however since Grace is a former molecular biologist, he would possibly be capable to determine what is going on on.
