Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs, Enola Holmes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Bad Guys, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Birds of Prey) has been tapped to score the upcoming sci-fi Project Hail Mary. The film is directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (21/22 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) and stars Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Milana Vayntrub and Ken Leung. The movie based on the based on the bestselling novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) follows a science teacher who wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there and – as his memory returns – begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Bad Times at the El Royale) wrote the screenplay. Lord, Miller, Gosling & Weir are also producing the project with Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Little Women), Aditya Sood (The Martian, Cocaine Bear) and Rachel O’Connor (Challengers). Pemberton has previously collaborated with Lord & Miller on the Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-Verse movies and the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty. Project Hail Mary will be released in theaters nationwide on March 20, 2026 by Amazon MGM Studios.
Pemberton’s recent projects also include Ari Aster’s Eddington, which is currently playing in theaters, as well as DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2, which will be released in theaters next Friday, August 1. He also has Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (to be released on June 27, 2027) coming up.
