Ryan Gosling Explains His ‘Unique’ Alien Costar Rocky in “Project Hail Mary”: ‘He’s a Diva’ (Exclusive)

Rocky, voiced and puppeteered by James Ortiz, had “his own glam squad” on set, Gosling tells PEOPLE ...
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‘Project Hail Mary’ brings a new kind of alien to the big screen

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
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Ryan Gosling and a cute alien team up to save humanity in 'Project Hail Mary'

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...