’Project Hail Mary’s Directors Next Sci-Fi Adaptation Series Officially Hits 3 Million Milestone

2026 has been a wildly successful year for sci-fi movies, but not many are going to stick with viewers as long as Project Hail Mary. The movie is based on the sci-fi novel of the same name by Andy Weir, and if his name sounds familiar, it’s because he also wrote the book that inspired Ridley Scott‘s 2015 box office hit, The Martian. Project Hail Mary came into theaters as Amazon’s most expensive movie ever, carrying a $200 million budget, but it proved to be a worthy investment by grossing around $684 million at the global box office. Leading star Ryan Gosling is expected to be awarded an Oscar nomination for his performance as Ryland Grace in the film, and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller could also be nominated for their work helming the sci-fi adaptation.

Lord and Miller are best known for their work writing and producing Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse, and they’re also involved in the third and final film, Beyond the Spider-Verse, which is scheduled for release in theaters on June 18, 2027. Through their production company, Lord Miller productions, the duo have also optioned the rights to the popular Bobiverse sci-fi book series, which has officially sold three audiobook copies since its launch in 2016. Audible announced back in July that the franchise’s sixth installment, The Infinite Extent, was getting a new release narrated by Ray Porter, who also narrated Project Hail Mary‘s acclaimed audiobook. The new release dropped on Audible in September and is now available around the world. It has helped the Bobiverse reach nearly three million audiobooks sold.

• The Wachowskis’ 1999 film won four Academy Awards, including Visual Effects and Film
  Editing.
• Bullet time was shot with a rig of roughly 120 still cameras firing in sequence around the
  actors.
• Keanu Reeves trained in martial arts for about four months before a frame was shot,
  recovering from neck surgery the whole time.
• It opened the same year as Fight Club and eXistenZ, in a run of films about not trusting the
  world in front of you.

• Mad Max: Fury Road won six Academy Awards in 2016, more than any other film that year.
• George Miller storyboarded the entire film as roughly 3,500 panels before there was a
  script.
• The chase was shot almost entirely practical in the Namib Desert, with real vehicles and
  real stunt performers.
• Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth carried the prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in 2024.

• Blade Runner 2049 won Roger Deakins his first Oscar for cinematography, on his fourteenth
  nomination.
• The film also took Best Visual Effects, 35 years after Ridley Scott’s 1982 original.
• Villeneuve shot it on large-format film and kept the fog and rain practical on set wherever
  he could.
• Three short films by Luke Scott and Shinichiro Watanabe bridge the 30-year gap between the
  two movies.

• Denis Villeneuve’s Dune won six Academy Awards in 2022, including Cinematography and
  Original Score.
• Hans Zimmer turned down Christopher Nolan’s Tenet so he could score Dune instead.
• Dune: Part Two arrived in 2024 and brought in Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher
  Walken.
• David Lynch’s 1984 version and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade one are both their
  own legends by now.

• The 1977 original won six Academy Awards plus a special achievement award for sound effects.
• John Williams’ score was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and became the
  best-selling symphonic film soundtrack ever.
• Andor took the galaxy somewhere colder and earned Emmy nominations for drama series in both
  seasons.
• The saga now runs across eleven feature films and a growing shelf of series on Disney+.

How Many Bobiverse Sci-Fi Books Are There?

The Bobiverse has been around for 10 years now, and the franchise started with the release of We Are Legion (We Are Bob) in 2016. The franchise continued only one year later with not one, but two new releases: For We Are Many and All These Worlds. The Bobiverse went on hiatus for three years before coming back with its fourth book, Heaven’s River, in 2020. Books five and six, Not Til We Are Lost and The Infinite Extent, were released in 2024 and 2026, respectively. Author Dennis E. Taylor has confirmed that a seventh and final book is being written right now, but he’s also not ruled out the franchise’s return beyond that with non-linear spin-offs.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the Bobiverse franchise.

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