Leave it to Ryan Gosling to lighten up a room full of exhibitors at CinemaCon. The actor who told exhibitors he found his inner Ken a few years ago, said that his latest astronaut movie Project Hail Mary is meant for the big screen. So much so “we tried to put it on a TV once — it wouldn’t fit.”
The Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed space adventure based on the Andy Weir bestseller kicked off Amazon MGM Studios CinemaCon presentation — a move that underscored how much this streamer is committed to theatrical.
Amazon MGM Studios started their presentation tonight cold — which most studios don’t do, with extended footage showing Gosling’s middle school science teacher who is consulted as an expert but insists “my place is in the classroom.”
Gosling told attendees they were the first people in the world to see footage from Project Hail Mary “who aren’t my mom.” He called the film an “insanely ambitious story, massive in scope.” It was so big “we tried to put it on a TV once, it wouldn’t fit.”
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He reluctantly is sent out in a spaceship after asking Sandra Huller’s character about the mission, “The astronauts die in space? Who is gonna sign up for that? I put the ‘not’ in astronaut; I’ve never done a space walk, I can’t even moon walk.”
Ultimately, he does go to space, and must save Earth from an astronomical catastrophe. In space, he deals with a lot of calamities (the music on the trailer shown this evening is Harry Styles’ Sign of the Times), and reports back, “So, I met an alien who is kind of growing on me — at least he’s not growing in me.”
Amazon MGM Studios has set a March 20, 2026 release.
Producers are Amy Pascal, Gosling, Lord, Miller, Aditya Sood, Rachel O’Connor, and Weir.
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