LOS ANGELES, March 10 (UPI) -- Project Hail Mary, in theaters March 20, is a celebration of real-life science. Through science-fiction, it shows how fun, humorous and rewarding learning can be.
Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens on a space ship. He sees that the other two astronauts who were with him died during the trip.
Flashbacks show how international scientist Eva Stratt (Sandra Huller) recruited schoolteacher Grace to help with a solar crisis because of a controversial paper he once published. Stratt's team needs to reproduce energy particles from Venus to visit the one sun in the galaxy that has resisted the particles that are dimming the Earth's and other suns.
They still can't produce enough particles for a round trip. So the astronauts on Project Hail Mary will only be able to send their findings back to Earth via a probe.
Both on Earth and in space, the film captures the joy of conducting experiments. Grace and Stratt's agent Carl (Lionel Boyce) get pumped up buying supplies. When it works and they discover the life cycle of the particles, it shows all of that work produced useful results.
