Project Hail Mary Is The Perfect ‘Memento Mori’ For The Year of the Fire Horse

In Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling plays a middle school science teacher who is sent to space on a suicide mission against his will. He meets an alien he nicknames ‘Rocky’, and the two learn to communicate, discover they’re both the sole survivors of their missions, and join forces to save their species from a life form that is eating their respective suns, “astrophage”.

When they discover the only star that is immune to astrophage is near a planet that contains its natural predator...