In “Project Hail Mary,” Ryan Gosling plays a scientist tasked with saving the planet from extinction. Amazon MGM, which backed the $200 million sci-fi epic, might not have the weight of the world in the balance, but the stakes are high: “Project Hail Mary” needs to become a crowd-pleasing hit to validate the studio’s expensive investment in movies. So far, the e-commerce giant has learned the hard way that getting people to theaters isn’t as easy as selling them paper products.
So it’s a relief that “Project Hail Mary,” adapted from “The Martian” author Andy Weir’s best-selling novel, is primed to be the studio’s first original blockbuster when it debuts on March 20.
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