If you were waiting to watch Project Hail Mary at home, the date is set: the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller–directed film will begin streaming on MGM+ on June 18.
The most affordable route for viewers is the Prime Video MGM+ add-on, which currently offers a free trial, making June 18 the first widely available streaming window after the film’s theatrical run. Project Hail Mary opened in March with an $80.5 million launch and has gone on to gross $680 million worldwide — a haul that followed the film’s brief tenure as the year’s largest debut before Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie reclaimed that spot.
Ryan Gosling headlines as Ryland Grace; Sandra Hüller appears as Eva Stratt; and James Ortiz provides the voice of Rocky, the film’s alien companion. Drew Goddard wrote the screenplay, and he framed his work on the project by saying he looks to "thrive in finding the humanity inside of these crazy characters." The directing duo of Lord and Miller delivered a movie that turned into one of Amazon Studios’ biggest openings — the studio had previously set that mark with Creed III.
The MGM+ date lands after a theatrical run that produced the $680 million global gross, a friction point for audiences who expected a longer theatrical window. For subscribers and those using Prime Video’s MGM+ add-on, June 18 is the moment to move the film from theaters to living rooms; for others the box-office numbers explain why the film stayed in cinemas before hitting streaming.
Project Hail Mary has threaded itself into unexpected corners of real life: NASA’s Artemis II crew watched the film ahead of lift-off, a small cultural moment that underscored the movie’s reach beyond standard box-office metrics.
Context is short but important: the movie adapts Andy Weir’s best-selling novel, and its production sits in a lineage that stretches back a decade — Drew Goddard worked on a film adaptation related to Weir’s work in 2015. That lineage and the film’s box-office performance help explain why MGM+ and Prime Video put the streaming date on the calendar now.
Notable absences in the streaming announcement: there is no new release plan for any sequel or follow-up content tied to the film. Andy Weir, the author whose novel inspired the movie, has said he "might write a sequel someday," but he is not actively working on one — a point that leaves the story’s continuation unresolved even as the film becomes widely accessible at home. He added that "that’s good enough to run with yet," a line that signals both possibility and pause.
What comes next is simple and dateable: Project Hail Mary streams on MGM+ beginning June 18; whether Weir ultimately returns with a sequel remains the open question viewers will watch after they press play.
