Project Hail Mary is one of the most anticipated movies of 2026. The upcoming film is currently set to hit theaters on March 20 and stars Ryan Gosling in the lead role of Ryland Grace. If you’re not already familiar with the story, Project Hail Mary is being adapted from Andy Weir’s best-selling novel of the same name. Weir is mostly known in the entertainment world for writing The Martian, which was a triumph both as a both a book and a movie (see IGN’s glowing review).
As a book-to-movie adaptation, Project Hail Mary has been getting a lot of attention lately. Just today it was announced that the final movie trailer will be played during the Super Bowl this Sunday. What I didn’t expect to see was any sort of LEGO announcement. Nevertheless, the plastic brick company has thrown its weight behind the film and we’re officially getting the very first LEGO Project Hail Mary set ahead of the movie’s release, on March 1.
The LEGO Project Hail Mary Set Is Up for Preorder
Project Hail Mary
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- Set #: 11389
- Piece Count: 830
- Age: 18+
The LEGO Project Hail Mary set features the ship itself, which of course is called simply the Hail Mary. This is a specialized space vessel powered by Astrophage and captained by Ryland Grace. The build itself is made up of 830 pieces and is supported by a display stand. Like most 18+ sets, this is specifically designed to be placed on a shelf or a desk rather than as a playtoy. With that in mind, though, there are still multiple ways you can actually display the ship once everything is put together.
The set also comes with two minifigures, Ryland Grace and Rocky. For those who aren’t familiar with the book already, Rocky is an alien creature who looks a bit like a giant rock crab. Despite his appearance, he is an experienced engineer and absolutely essential to the mission.
The Project Hail Mary set is now available to preorder from the LEGO Store and Amazon for $99.99 with a March 1 release date. This set will be arriving with a ton of other new sets, including the Star Wars Smart Brick sets that LEGO revealed at CES earlier this year.
What is Project Hail Mary About?
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
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If you’re interested in the story this LEGO set is based off of, I can’t recommend the book enough. Andy Weir’s novel is one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time and is absolutely worth a read. Here’s a quick synopsis of the book from Penguin Random house:
“Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.”
