“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.” The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that translates into about 5 million ticket buyers.
It was fun, but they stripped 90% of the science out of it. The book is much, much better.
I loved the book, it’s the first novel I’ve reread more than once in my adult life.
In glad they stripped the science out of it. It would have been a boring film if they’d left it in. They did the story justice. There’s only so much you can do in 2.5 hours and I think they did brilliantly.