Interview With "Project Hail Mary" Screenwriter Drew Goddard

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

"Project Hail Mary" is a 2026 American science fiction adventure film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling (who also produced the film), Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, and Milana Vayntrub. The film follows Ryland Grace, a man who awakens on an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he arrived there. Goddard was kind enough to spend half an hour (and with a cold, too) speaking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released in theaters by Amazon MGM Studios on March 20th. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.7	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.5	They think they're better than us.
0:08.5	Who do you think you are?
0:09.8	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.5	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.3	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:19.9	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is my interview with the screenwriter for Project Hill Mary through Goddard.
0:27.3	Please state your name.
0:28.7	Wrongly, Grace.
0:30.2	I spoke up from a coma.
0:32.4	I'm several light years from my apartment.
0:35.2	And I'm not an astronaut.
0:40.3	I'm not an astronaut. I'm not an astronaut. I'm not an astronaut.
0:42.3	If you don't go, you die.
0:45.3	We're the rest of us.
0:50.3	The sun is dying.
0:52.3	You are the only scientist who might know what this says.
0:56.0	I'm just a teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle.
0:59.0	You have a doctorate in molecular biology.
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