Project Hail Mary is screening in Ster-Kinekor theatres, Nu Metro cinemas, and at The Bioscope from today (20 March 2026). The film was shot for Imax but will not be shown in 3D at these venues.
As expansive as the sci-fi genre is within cinema, too many great movies are completely forgotten by audiences, like Moon and The Quiet Earth.
Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.