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Space Odyssey: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ trailer breaks viewings record
‘Project Hail Mary’ may be coming out next year, but it has already broken a record for an original movie (not a remake or sequel).
Ryan Gosling’s new sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary has broken trailer viewing records, gaining more than 400 million views since it was released online on 30 June.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie), the film is based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir (author of “The Martian”) and stars Gosling as Ryland Grace, a man who wakes up on a space station.
Snag is that he’s not an astronaut. He’s a science teacher with no recolection of what his mission is.
He slowly learns that he was sent into outer space to reverse the impact of a phenomena causing the sun to die out – something which recalls one of Danny Boyle’s best films, Sunshine. However, he won’t be searching for a solution on his own…
Check out the trailer below – which has already achieved more than 400 million views across various platforms, which is a record for an original movie (i.e. not a remake or sequel):
This sci-fi drama (with a comedic tone) also stars the great Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann, Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest) – check out
