Project Hi MaryThe Ryan Gosling space thriller, which became one of the year’s biggest box office surprises, is on its way to streaming, and viewers won’t have to wait long.
The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s best-selling novel arrives on MGM+ on June 18, and the most affordable way to watch is via Prime Video’s MGM+ add-on, which is currently offering a free trial.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative duo behind The Lego movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the film follows Ryland Grace, played by Gosling, as he wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there, tasked with a nearly impossible mission to save Earth.
Sandra Hüller plays Eva Stratt, while puppeteer James Ortiz awakens Rocky, the alien companion at the heart of the film’s most beloved moments.
The screenplay was written by Drew Goddard, marking his second adaptation of a Weir novel after his work on The Martian in 2015.
When asked about working with Lord and Miller, Goddard said the pair “thrives to find the humanity inside these crazy characters”, which, given the film’s emotional core, proved essential.
The numbers tell their own story.
Project Hi Mary launched with $80.5 million at the box office in March, Amazon Studios’ biggest opening ever, previously held by Creed III, and has since grossed $680 million globally.
It held the record for biggest debut of the year until it was overtaken by Universals The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
The film also caught the attention of NASA in a rather fitting way.
Less than a month after its release, the space agency launched Artemis II, its mission to send a crew farther from Earth than any human has traveled since Apollo 13.
Before departure, the four-man crew saw Project Hi Marywith Gosling later sending them a video message of support.
As for a sequel, author Weir shared Den of Geek he might write one one day, though it’s not currently in development.
He has ideas for an extended story, he said, but nothing “that’s good enough to run with yet.”
