Project Hail Mary Andy Weir's Latest, with Ryan Gosling

The team behind The Martian reunited for another Andy Weir adaptation, and the result is one of the year's most sheerly entertaining sci-fi films. Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace, a lone astronaut who wakes up with no memory on a desperate mission to save Earth, opposite Sandra Hüller and a scene-stealing alien companion. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller direct from Drew Goddard's screenplay — the exact same writer who adapted The Martian.

If you loved the "smart people solving impossible problems with science and jokes" vibe of The Martian and Oppenheimer-scale earnestness, this is built for you. It's the rare original-feeling blockbuster that leads with character and ideas rather than IP, and it kicked off 2026's blockbuster season in style.