Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Project Hail Mary Hits a Major Milestone Nearly a Year Before Release

Ryan Gosling’s upcoming sci-fi thriller Project Hail Mary doesn’t get successful theaters until 2026 — but regardless, the movie is disconnected to a beauteous astonishing start, having already breached an insane grounds mode up of its release.

The film’s manager Phil Lord revealed this week that the film’s trailer has surpassed an unthinkable 400 cardinal views, making it the astir watched trailer for immoderate archetypal movie that isn’t a sequel oregon remake ever aft conscionable 1 week online.

Lord specifically took to societal media to observe the accomplishment. “Holy Moly! Thank you each you glorious generous fans of movies / books / adjacent airy velocity abstraction question / the Sun for pushing the trailer for Project Hail Mary past 400 cardinal views – the astir successful 1 week for a non-sequel non-remake archetypal movie trailer… ever,” helium gushed successful his post, which included a graphic celebrating the milestone that included a caller representation of Gosling successful the film.

Holy Moly! Thank you each you glorious generous fans of movies / books / adjacent airy velocity abstraction question / the Sun for pushing the trailer for Project Hail Mary past 400 cardinal views – the astir successful 1 week for a non-sequel non-remake archetypal movie trailer… ever. Can’t hold to… pic.twitter.com/b1UzDy3lH7

The filmmaker added, “Can’t hold to convey immoderate of you successful idiosyncratic astatine San Diego Comic-Con successful Hall H with our pals Ryan, Andy, and Drew….and a fewer different surprises…” Lord volition beryllium attending the large lawsuit with Gosling, co-director Chris Miller, archetypal caller writer Andy Weir, and the film’s writer Drew Goddard — but arsenic for what benignant of breathtaking tidbits they person successful store for fans, it seems similar we’ll person to hold until SDCC to find out.

This is the 2nd movie adaptation of Weir’s work, with the archetypal 1 being 20th Century Fox’s The Martian, starring Matt Damon. That movie was wildly palmy for the studio, raking successful a reported $630 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau — truthful it makes a batch of consciousness that not lone is Amazon MGM Studios consenting to instrumentality a accidental connected different adaptation from the author, but besides that the movie is already garnering truthful overmuch attention.

Project Hail Mary besides stars Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, and Milana Vayntrub. It arrives successful theaters connected March 20, 2026.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.