Project Hail Mary Film Screening

FREE FILM SCREENING (AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE!) - AI IN ENTERTAINMENT SERIES

Hosted in the Madorsky Theater at the Southeast Museum of Photography

Project Hail Mary is a science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir. In the near future, middle school teacher and former molecular biologist Ryland Grace (played by Ryan Gosling) wakes up from an induced coma on the interstellar spacecraft Hail Mary, suffering from amnesia. Grace learns that he is the sole survivor of a three-person crew that was traveling towards the Tau Ceti system, 11.9 light-years from Earth. Grace recalls that scientists discovered a "Petrova line" of infrared light stretching from the Sun to Venus; an alien microbe in the line, dubbed "astrophage", was proliferating on the Sun's surface, dimming the Sun at a rate that would cause catastrophic global cooling within thirty years.