For fans of sci-fi and fantasy like our selves, 2026 has started strong with Scream 7, Ready or Not 2: Here I come and the absolutle superb Project Hail Mary from the Spider-Verse’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller and The MArtian author Andy Weir and now it seems there’s a chance we might see Ryan Gosling’s Grace and James Ortiz’s adorable alien, Rocky, again.
The legend goes that Gosling got the manuscript of Weir’s novel during the covid madness, a full year before the book was even published, and he immediately wanted to make the movie, which was full of hope in a time when the world and its governments were taking it from so many people. He got the rights to the book immediately and along with Amy Pascal, Sony’s former boss, and they got Lord and Miller onboard and then waited until Drew Goddard, who did such a wonderful job on Weir’s novel The Martian when it was adapted for Man Damon, was clear, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Tidbit: Make your own Grace model as seen in the movie:
The official Project Hail Mary site has a very cool hidden Easter Egg.
You can download your own 3D model of the xenonite Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) sculpture and, if you’ve got a 3D printer, you can make your own and have him on your desk or car dashboard.
The archive with the files can be found here or directly downloaded here.
That was 2020. Jump forward six years (can you believe covid was six years ago!?!) and we’ve seen the finished article on (hopefully) the biggest screen possible, and it was simply, as Rocky would put it, amaze, amaze, amaze!
Sadly though, the novel was a one-and-done, and the movie had a fairly final ending… but never let a good franchise opportunity go by, eh?
Insiders are saying that Amazon MGM are already looking at ways to make a sequel to the movie, with word being that they are very insistent that Weir be the one guiding the story, should it happen – this is a relief as in this day and age, there is no excuse to making bad sequels to movies and having the cfeator involved is a no-brainer.
Tidbit: Beyond the Spider-Verse voice work is finally happening:
Jake Johnson reveals he’s begun voice recording for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, saying: “They’re honoring him in a very exciting way.”
Not going to lie, “honouring him” makes me worry that the new movie is going to kill off Johnson’s Peter B Parker. I really hope that’s not on the cards…
Weir, who has never written a sequel to any of his novels, according to this new report, has said he is ‘toying with potential sequel ideas, though he does not have anything solid enough for a book, yet’.
Meanwhile, Lord and Miller are currently working on their third Spider-Verse movie (finally!) and have said they really want to adapt another of Weir’s novels, Artemis, saying: “There is an Artemis script; it’s delightful. The thing that was holding that back for years was, how do we execute one-sixth gravity? The story takes place on the moon. We think we’ve figured it out.”
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As it is, Lord, Miller, Weir, and Goddard all have a close relationship, and they all seem to be very much on the same page when it comes to adapting these stories.
If the team of Lord, Miller, Weir, and Goddard is all working on a Project Hail Mary sequel together, then I will be very much seated.
Thoughts? I know you have them, and I wanna hear ’em all.
Goddard talks The Matrix 5, Keanu Reeves, and doing what the fans want
Source: THR
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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