Unruly salt-and-pepper hair in a long quaff, round glasses and broad smile give James Ortiz the look of a whimsical inventor, the kind that hides away in his workshop crafting extraordinary artifacts.

The movie hinge's on Ryan Gosling's chemistry with a rock-like alien, with puppeteer Ortiz improvising 45-minute takes with the leading man to create a believable friendship. By Aaron Couch Film ...

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Book-to-screen adaptations often radically alter a book’s plot — sometimes so much that the original story is practically unrecognizable. Some authors are philosophical about those changes. Others get ...

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NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science-fiction thriller Project Hail Mary sticks surprisingly close to the book it’s adapting, a thriller about a lone astronaut trying to save Earth from ...

Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller take us deep inside the making of their sci-fi crowd-pleaser. Plus, the lessons of Solo and the state of the Spider-Verse Miller: Trying to have engagement ...

The author talked about adapting his best-selling novel for film, creating the beloved character Rocky and making complex science feel approachable. By Gilbert Cruz Andy Weir’s first time at the ...

“Anyone can be brave. You just need someone to be brave for.” That’s both a key line and the moral of the story in Project Hail Mary, the remarkable new film starring Ryan Gosling, James Ortiz, and ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

The last time Drew Goddard adapted one of Andy Weir’s books, it earned him an Oscar nomination. Plus, “The Martian,” the film that Goddard wrote, was a blockbuster hit. But when he got the call to ...