_Project Hail Mary_ has become a box-office behemoth, not to mention an online and fandom hit, with inspired creators making edit after edit of the hopeful scientist and his alien companion. The film has been perfectly timed to the zeitgeist, too, with the emotional Artemis II moon mission uniting space lovers around the world.

Adapting the popular book by Andy Weir, screenwriter Drew…

_Project Hail Mary_ just had a very good weekend.

Ryan Gosling's sci-fi epic shot to $140.9 million globally in its opening frame, including $80.5 million domestically, per Variety.

Not bad for a $200 million film about a schoolteacher who wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there. And then meets an alien he nicknames "Rocky."

The man who put all that on the page is…

I have to say up top that Drew Goddard (_The Martian_ , _Bad Times at the El Royale, Buffy, Lost, etc_) is one of my screenwriting idols. He feels like he can get anything onto the page. He started in TV and is now the scribe behind some of the best movies of the last decade.

It feels like there's no job he can't handle. Take the upcoming _Project Hail Mary,_ which was a beloved science…