Project Hail Mary

The sun is dying, being feasted on by tiny lifeforms based on Venus. The phenomenon, the "astrophage," is not unique: every star within dozens of light-years of Sol is suffering the same malaise...except one: Tau Ceti. With Earth's habitability in danger in a matter of decades, the countries of the world unite to send a near-lightspeed ship, powered by the same tiny lifeforms, to Tau Ceti to investigate. Only one crewmember, Ryland Grace, survives the trip, finding himself alone almost a dozen light years from home with the awesome responsibility of saving the entire human race...and no idea how.Project Hail Mary is a film based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir, best-known for The Martian (also made into a successful movie). Both stories have a similar premise, stranding a handsome Hollywood leading man (first Matt Damon and now Ryan Gosling) an ungodly distance from home with limited or non-existent chances of rescue. Project Hail Mary is far less concerned with actual…