After “First Man,” Ryan Gosling is taking on another astronaut movie. The actor will produce and star in “The Hail Mary” with MGM in negotiations to acquire the project, based on the upcoming Andy Weir novel.
Ken Kao is also producing. “The Hail Mary” is centered on a solitary astronaut on a space ship who is trying to save Earth. CAA is brokering the book deal with David Fugate of Launch Books.
CAA also represents Gosling. “The Hail Mary” will be published next spring by Random House. Weir’s first novel, “The Martian,” was self-published in 2011.
The story follows an American astronaut stranded alone on Mars in the year 2035. The film adaptation, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, was released in 2015 and became a massive
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