‘Project Hail Mary’ Is Finally Heading To Prime Video

What Project Hail Mary Is About

Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher played by Ryan Gosling, wakes up alone aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory gradually returns, he pieces together that he has been sent on a solo mission to solve the riddle of a mysterious substance draining energy from the sun — and that Earth’s survival depends on him figuring it out. The cast includes Sandra Hüller as NASA scientist Eva Stratt, James Ortiz as the film’s alien co-lead Rocky and Lionel Boyce as Carl. The film runs two hours and 36 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some violence.

The film is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller — whose credits include 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — with a script from Drew Goddard, who has previously adapted Andy Weir’s novel The Martian into Ridley Scott’s 2015 film. When asked about working with Lord and Miller, Goddard told Variety they “thrive in finding the humanity inside of these crazy characters”, something the film’s central friendship between Grace and Rocky required above all else.

How Project Hail Mary Performed At The Box Office

Project Hail Mary opened on March 20 to $80.5 million domestically and $60.4 million from 82 international markets, for a worldwide opening weekend total of $140.9 million. It was the largest debut of the year at that point and the biggest opening in Amazon MGM Studios’ history, surpassing the previous record set by Creed III with $100.4 million worldwide in 2023.

The film was produced on a reported budget of $200 million. Its second weekend drop of only 32% was the best hold in recent memory for a film opening in that range, comparable to Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two, per the Hollywood Reporter. By its seventh weekend, the film had surpassed The Martian’s lifetime worldwide gross of $630 million. According to Box Office Mojo, it has since accumulated a worldwide total of $683.5 million, and held the title of the year’s top domestic film till it was overtaken by The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

What Critics Are Saying About Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary holds a 94% critics score and 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of publication. The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney described it as a “thrilling space odyssey warmed by humanity and hope” in which Gosling “proves he can have chemistry with a rock.” Variety’s Owen Gleiberman was more measured, calling it “baggy and incredibly derivative of movies you’ve seen before” and noting that “everything to do with the onboard alien is far too cute and formulaic.” BBC’s Nicholas Barber named it one of the best films of 2026, while Erik Kain writing for Forbes online, called the film “an absolute joy.”

Where To Stream Project Hail Mary

The film’s streaming rollout has been more complicated than most. It became available to buy or rent on premium video-on-demand platforms including Amazon Video and Apple TV Store on May 12. Rather than directly arriving on Prime Video as many had expected, it began streaming exclusively on MGM+ on June 18 this year, which could point to MGM+’s growing ambitions as a premium content platform. MGM+ costs $7.99 a month as a Prime Video add-on channel. The Prime Video arrival on July 3 extends access to the full Prime subscriber base without additional cost. A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD release follows on August 11, with an Amazon exclusive SteelBook gift set scheduled for October 13.

Will There Be A Project Hail Mary Sequel?

In an interview with Den of Geek, Andy Weir stated that he “might write a sequel someday,” but it is not something he is currently working on. Speaking to Josh Weiss for Forbes, Weir said the book he’s working on at the moment is “not a sequel to anything” but a standalone science fiction story. There is a strong commercial impetus for a sequel; Project Hail Mary is among the year’s biggest earners and its Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 95% indicates significant goodwill.