In the film, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is recruited to help save Earth because of his history as a cell biologist with some iconoclastic ideas about life in the universe.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is a science-fiction novel centered on Ryland Grace, a former middle-school teacher who wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or why he's there.

Editor’s note: “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling, opens in theaters on Friday. The world is ending. Our sun is nearing the brink of annihilation, consumed by an unknown spacefaring organism ...

Ryan Gosling plays an astronaut in this derivative, carefully manufactured crowd-pleaser; Project Hail Mary doesn't feel like storytelling so much as mechanical engineering. This is FRESH AIR. Ryan ...

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"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...