Van Lathan

All right, this is your Midnight Manifest with Project Hail Mary, directed by Lorde Miller and by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir, starring Ryan Gosling, Sandra Huller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Long, and Moana Van Trubb.

This is going to be very long.

Strap it.

In the future, the sun, along with the surrounding solar system, is dimming.

Ryland Grace, a former molecular biologist now teaching at a junior high school, teaches his class about the Earth's impending ice age and the 30-year timeline to do something about it.

The teacher is approached by Eva Stratt, a government official in charge of stopping this calamity.

Grace discovers that the sun is dimming thanks to an alien microbe that consumes electromagnetic radiation.

He calls it astrophage and uses it as fuel.

Project Hail Mary begins to take shape as the scientists plot a course to Tau Ceti in hopes of studying the star that has resisted infection from the single-celled organism.

Unfortunately, the team only has enough fuel for a one-way trip, which means dooming the astronauts on board to death.

But before takeoff, an explosion kills all the scientists trained for the mission.

Grace is drugged by Strat, given amnesia medication, and forced aboard the ship.

When Grace wakes up, he's already aboard the flying...

shuttle, but realizes that the rest of the crew perished during the journey.

As Grace starts to regain his memories, he's approached by another ship and meets its only surviving inhabitant, the alien Rocky, who is a spider-like rock creature from the planet Eridani.

After developing a way to communicate with the alien, Grace discovers that Rocky is also trying to save his world,

from astrophage.

The two survivors form a friendship and work together to collect a sample that will save their planet.

Buddy cop hijinks ensue, but when Grace realizes the Tau Miba he engineered to save both Earth and Eridani will eat Rocky's ship, the astronaut sacrifices his ride home and goes back to save his pal.

By movie's end, both planets are saved, with Grace now living on Erid, teaching the young population about science.