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Having completed three weeks of release, Project Hail Mary passed a monumental milestone at the global box office this weekend. The sci-fi epic, based on a bestseller by Andy Weir, is closing the gap between itself and The Martian, also adapted from a Weir novel. The Martian grossed $630 million worldwide in 2015, against a reported budget of around $110 million. Project Hail Mary reportedly cost twice as much. The new blockbuster was directed by **Phil Lord **and Christopher Miller in their directorial comeback, years after they were unceremoniously fired from Solo: A Star Wars Story. Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling, who is heading to the galaxy far, far away with next year’s Star Wars: Starfighter.
The movie opened to near-unanimous praise 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.” Like The Martian, Lord and Miller’s film is a shoo-in for a Best Picture Oscar nod and has overtaken several sci-fi classics during the course of its nearly monthlong run. Among the recent films to have made way for it are Bumblebee, the Transformers prequel with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score, and a critically acclaimed trilogy-capper directed by Matt Reeves.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
With $510 million at the worldwide box office so far, Project Hail Mary has passed the $490 million lifetime haul of Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes. Released in 2017, the sci-fi epic was headlined by a returning Andy Serkis, who broke new ground in the performance capture arena as the revolutionary ape Caesar. Serkis previously played the character in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Rupert Wyatt, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Reeves. The third film was critically acclaimed; like Project Hail Mary, it holds a 94% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, with a consensus that reads, “War for the Planet of the Apes combines breathtaking special effects and a powerful, poignant narrative to conclude this rebooted trilogy on a powerful — and truly blockbuster — note.” The long-running sci-fi franchise continued with director Wes Ball’s soft reboot Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, while Reeves moved on to launch a new series with The Batman. 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.