Go away it to Ryan Gosling to loosen up a room at CinemaCon. The actor who instructed exhibitors he discovered his interior Ken a number of years in the past, mentioned that his newest astronaut film Undertaking Hail Mary is supposed for the massive display screen. A lot so, “we tried to place it on a TV as soon as — it wouldn’t match.”
The Phil Lord and Chris Miller-directed area journey based mostly on the Andy Weir bestseller kicked off Amazon MGM Studios‘ CinemaCon presentation — and Gosling’s phrases underscored how a lot this streamer is dedicated to theatrical. Head of Amazon and MGM Studios Mike Hopkins (he stepped on stage first tonight within the post-Jen Salke period) additional emphasised that mission, underscoring that it’s the streamer’s first CinemaCon presentation.
Amazon MGM Studios began their presentation tonight chilly — which most studios don’t do, with prolonged footage displaying Gosling’s center faculty science instructor who’s consulted as an skilled however insists “my place is within the classroom.”
Gosling instructed attendees they have been the primary folks on this planet to see footage from Undertaking Hail Mary “who aren’t my mother.” He known as the movie an “insanely bold story, large in scope.” It was so huge, “we tried to place it on a TV as soon as, it wouldn’t match.”
He reluctantly is distributed out in a spaceship after asking Sandra Huller’s character concerning the mission, “The astronauts die in area? Who’s gonna join that? I put the ‘not’ in astronaut; I’ve by no means completed an area stroll, I can’t even moonwalk.”
Finally, he does go to area, and should save Earth from an astronomical disaster. In area, he offers with a variety of calamities (the music within the trailer proven this night is Harry Types’ ‘Signal of the Occasions’) and reviews again, “So, I met an alien who’s type of rising on me — no less than he’s not rising in me.”
Amazon MGM Studios has set a March 20, 2026 launch.
Producers are Amy Pascal, Gosling, Lord, Miller, Aditya Sood, Rachel O’Connor and Weir.
