Ryan Gosling's 'Project Hail Mary' now streaming on Amazon Prime Video

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Amazon MGM Studios' " Project Hail Mary ," the science fiction blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling that launched into theaters back on March 20, 2026 is now hitting its streaming stride on Prime Video after a stop on MGM+.

The $200 million outer space saga , directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("The Lego Movie," "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse") and adapted from author Andy Weir's 2021 novel of the same name, made a respectable $630 million in its full theatrical run.

Despite a general jokiness and long runtime, the film was well-received by critics and audiences and now those who've held out from going to the multiplex to absorb the adventure will have a chance to catch it at home.

Gosling portrays Ryland Grace, a middle-grade teacher and molecular biologist who reluctantly gets recruited for a desperate deep space mission to try and solve a cosmic conundrum that's causing our sun to slowly dim.

Along the way to the Tau Ceti star cluster, Grace encounters a rock-skinned alien whose homeworld suffers from the same problem and together they hatch a plan to rescue their prospective planets from nasty sun-munching microbes called astrophages.

"Ryan added so much depth and layers to Ryland that I never had in the book," Weir told Space in a March interview . "And I was so happy about that because I consider character depth to be one of my biggest weaknesses as an author. I'm a plot-driven author. Seeing Ryan add all these layers, I'm like, 'Oh, good, he's covering the things that I didn’t do.' Then later I'll get credit for that character.”

"Project Hail Mary" has had a circuitous route onto home video in the aftermath of its big screen campaign, first rolling out on video-on-demand May 12, then leaping onto Amazon-owned MGM+ on June 18 for its streaming debut to help bolster subscriber numbers for that smaller platform.

And finally, the popular sci-fi epic is settling in for what's hopefully a long stay on Prime Video that started on July 3, just in time for the long Independence Day weekend in the United States. Amaze!