Project Hail Mary Directors’ Next Sci-Fi Movie Is Totally Different From Ryan Gosling’s Hit

Project Hail Mary’s producers just locked in their next big project, and it’s nothing like Ryan Gosling’s space epic. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are teaming up with an Oscar-winning director to adapt a debut novel that puts a wild spin on time travel.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller set to produce Paradox Inc.

Lord Miller’s production banner has signed on to develop a film based on Forrest Brazeal’s upcoming debut novel Paradox Inc. at Universal Pictures, according to Deadline.

Oscar-winning director Daniel Roher will helm the project using a screenplay penned by Matthew Robinson. Lord and Miller will serve as producers under their existing first-look agreement with Universal. Lucy Kitada and Aditya Sood will join as producers alongside Brazeal as executive producer.

The story centers on a fierce competition between an ambitious startup and a chaotic Big Tech corporation. Both companies rush to create the first time machine designed for everyday consumers. The ultimate reward involves gaining dominion over reality itself. Yet the technology sector’s approach to temporal displacement operates in unexpected ways.

Roher and Robinson are jointly crafting the treatment for the upcoming feature right now. Robinson previously penned the hit Netflix genre-blending film The Last House. He additionally wrote Gore Verbinski’s recent project Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Roher earned an Academy Award for his 2022 documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Brazeal formerly held a position at Google amid the height of the AI and crypto booms. He additionally established the technology marketing firm Freeman & Forrest. Prior to attracting Hollywood interest, he built a large following through online videos and webcomics. Penguin Random House will publish his novel on January 19, 2027.

Lord Miller most recently backed Project Hail Mary, which earned $684M globally for Amazon MGM Studios. The company additionally produced the Nicolas Cage-fronted Spider-Noir series for MGM+ and Prime Video. That series has garnered 11 Emmy nominations this awards season. Their forthcoming projects include Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, arriving in theaters June 2027.

Source: Comingsoon.net