Why Project Hail Mary’s creators were ‘scared’ about making the sci-fi adaptation

Screenwriter Drew Goddard and author Andy Weir discuss the challenges of adapting Weir's novel Project Hail Mary into a film, noting it is far more ambitious in scope than The Martian. Key difficulties included conveying first-person narration visually and balancing hard sci-fi with buddy-comedy tones. The film stars Ryan Gosling and is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.