{"id":1880,"date":"2026-09-20T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:15:15","slug":"6-first-contact-sci-fi-movies-that-are-even-better-than-project-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"6 First Contact Sci-Fi Movies That Are Even Better Than Project Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/movie\/project-hail-mary\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Project Hail Mary<\/strong><\/em><\/a> was a huge success when it was released in theaters in 2026. The movie stars <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/ryan-gosling-project-hail-mary-erid-toned-down-explained-goddard-lord-miller-weir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Gosling as Grace<\/a>, a middle school teacher who is also a former molecular biologist. Scientists from all over the world recruit him because his past research could help save the Earth, as an alien microbe is dimming the sun, which will cause catastrophic global cooling. He is then sent into space to set a plan in motion to save the planet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Hail Mary was a huge success when it was released in theaters in 2026. The movie stars Ryan Gosling as Grace, a middle school teacher who is also a former molecular biologist. Scientists from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}