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Having completed another successful weekend at the box office, Project Hail Mary **is on the path to the $600 million milestone **worldwide. The sci-fi blockbuster reportedly cost more than $200 million to produce and likely millions more to market. But it’s already being seen as a major win for Amazon MGM Studios, and it’ll likely benefit from a recently announced delay to its Prime Video release. *Project Hail Mary *is based on a bestseller by Andy Weir, who also wrote the novel that inspired The Martian. That film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, grossed $630 million worldwide against a reported budget of around $110 million. However, this was back in 2015, when Hollywood could still count on Russia and China for significant revenue.
That said, the new film has cemented itself as a rare blockbuster that could also do well during the awards season. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the movie stars Ryan Gosling as a scientist-turned-schoolteacher who is sent on a dangerous intergalactic mission to save the world. Project Hail Mary opened to widespread acclaim and is now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 94% critics’ score and a “Verified Hot” 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “A visually dazzling space odyssey that’s carried along effortlessly by the gravitational pull of Ryan Gosling at his most winning, Project Hail Mary is a near-miraculous fusion of smarts and heart.”
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
With $285 million domestically and around $575 million worldwide so far, the movie has eclipsed the $553 million lifetime global haul of Michael Bay’s Armageddon. Released in 1998, the movie starred Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, and Liv Tyler, among others, including future Landman icon Billy Bob Thornton. It follows a group of miners sent into space to perform a mission similar to Ryland Grace’s in Project Hail Mary. Armageddon wasn’t as critically acclaimed as Lord and Miller’s film, but it has certainly found a place for itself in the hearts and minds of the audiences who grew up with it. The movie now holds a 42% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie’s antagonist, Armageddon slickly sums up the cinematic legacies of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay.” Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Drew Goddard, Andy Weir
Aditya Sood, Amy Pascal, Andy Weir, Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, Rachel O’Connor, Ryan Gosling
Based on the novel by Andy Weir (The Martian), Project Hail Mary is an action-adventure sci-fi film that stars Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who must save Earth from an oncoming ice age by heading to a faraway galaxy.