Ave Maria ProjectRyan Gosling’s space thriller that became one of the biggest box office surprises of the year is headed to streaming and viewers won’t have to wait long.
The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s best-selling novel is coming to MGM+ on June 18, and the cheapest way to watch it will be through Prime Video’s MGM+ add-on, which currently offers a free trial.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative duo behind The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse The film follows Ryland Grace, played by Gosling, as he wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there, tasked with a nearly impossible mission to save Earth.
Sandra Hüller stars as Eva Stratt, while puppeteer James Ortiz brings to life Rocky, the alien companion at the center of the film’s most beloved moments.
The script was written by Drew Goddard and marks his second adaptation of a Weir novel after his work on The Martian in 2015.
When asked about collaborating with Lord and Miller, Goddard said the pair “thrives by finding the humanity within these crazy characters,” which, given the film’s emotional core, proved essential.
The numbers tell their own story.
Ave Maria Project opened to $80.5 million at the box office in March, the biggest opening ever for Amazon Studios, previously made by Creed III, and has since raised $680 million worldwide.
It held the record for the biggest debut of the year until it was surpassed by Universal. The Super Mario Galaxy movie.
The film also caught the attention of NASA in a pretty fitting way.
Less than a month after its launch, the space agency launched Artemis II, its mission to send a crew farther from Earth than any human since Apollo 13.
Before takeoff, the four-person crew observed Ave Maria Projectand Gosling later sent them a video message of support.
As for a sequel, author Weir said Geek Den I may write one someday, although it’s not currently in development.
He has ideas for an expanded story, he said, but nothing “that’s good enough to move forward with yet.”
