Project Hail Mary film builds dazzling new worlds — and grounds them in science

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Ryan Gosling stars as a scientist who wakes up alone in deep space in Project Hail Mary. Credit: Amazon MGM Studios/Landmark Media/Alamy

The film Project Hail Mary — which opens widely on Friday — has one of the best opening scenes on the silver screen in recent years. A man wakes up, disoriented and with a fuzzy memory, next to two dead bodies. We find out that he’s a scientist-turned-astronaut on a spaceship headed for a star beyond our Solar System, and those dead bodies are his crewmates. He’s all alone, and it’s now up to him to save life on Earth.

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