Directors of Project Hail Mary update on their Artemis adaptation

Ridley Scott’s The Martian helped reshape modern science fiction with a realistic take on survival in space. Even before Artemis was published in 2017, 20th Century Fox acquired the rights and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were announced as co-directors, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet attached to write.

The pair made a different Weir adaptation first, bringing his 2021 novel Project Hail Mary to theaters on March 20, but say they remain committed to Artemis. Artemis plays more like a noir: it follows Jazz Bashara, a smuggler who becomes entangled in a conspiracy that could kill everyone in the lunar city.

Miller told The Hollywood Reporter that the script has been written and that “it’s delightful.” The Moon setting has complicated production. Lord noted that “the trick on that was the Moon gravity, which is 1/6th Earth's gravity.

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