How Awesome Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Ryan Gosling Says “We Tried To Put It On A TV Once — It Wouldn’t Fit” – CinemaCon

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Leave it to Ryan Gosling to lighten up a room at CinemaCon. The actor who told exhibitors he found his inner Ken a few years ago, said that his latest astronaut movie Project Hail Mary is meant for the big screen.

So much so, “we tried to put it on a TV once — it wouldn’t fit.” The Phil Lord and Chris Miller-directed space adventure based on the Andy Weir bestseller kicked off Amazon MGM Studios‘ CinemaCon presentation — and Gosling’s words underscored how much this streamer is committed to theatrical.

Head of Amazon and MGM Studios Mike Hopkins (he stepped on stage first tonight in the post-Jen Salke era) further emphasized that mission, underscoring that it’s the streamer’s first CinemaCon presentation.

Amazon MGM Studios started their presentation tonight cold — which most studios don’t do, with extended footage showing Gosling’s middle school science teacher who is consulted as an expert but insists “my place is in the classroom.” Gosling told attendees they were the first people in the world to see footage from Project Hail Mary “who aren’t my mom.” He called the film an “insanely ambitious story, massive in scope.” It was so big, “we tried to put it on a TV once, it wouldn’t fit.” He reluctantly is sent out in a spaceship after asking Sandra Huller’s character about the mission, “The astronauts die in space?