How Awesome Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Ryan Gosling Says “We Tried To Put It On A TV Once — It Wouldn’t Fit” – Amazon MGM Studios CinemaCon

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 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 teacher who is consulted as an expert but insists “my place is in the classroom.”

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 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.

Gosling and Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Hüller lead the cast for the adaptation of The Martian author Andy Weir’s eponymous novel. The story follows middle school science teacher Ryland Grace (Gosling) who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must figure out how to complete his interstellar mission to save Earth from an astronomical catastrophe completely alone, until he meets a mysterious alien who has traveled light years to save his own species from the same fate.

Amazon MGM Studios has set a March 20, 2026 release.

Producers are Amy Pascal, Gosling, Lord, Miller, Aditya Sood, Rachel O’Connor, and Weir.