Project Hail Mary Directors Set Next Sci-Fi Novel Adaptation At Universal

Published Aug 19, 2026, 3:19 PM EDT Adam Bentz is a senior news writer at ScreenRant, where he has authored nearly 5,000 articles, including features and lists. He studied creative writing and English with a concentration in screenwriting at Southern New Hampshire University and interned as a writer/journalist for The Borgen Project, an influential organization that fights global poverty. However, one of his proudest achievements is editing a Leonardo DiCaprio freakout compilation that has over 150K views on YouTube. Adam also fancies himself an amateur film critic on his personal website. Sign in to your ScreenRant account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Following the success of Project Hail Mary, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have set their next sci-fi novel adaptation, Paradox Inc., at Universal. Having directed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), 21 Jump Street (2012), and The Lego Movie (2014), Lord and Miller most recently helmed Project Hail Mary, based on the sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, which was a massive critical and commercial success, receiving a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossing $684 million at the box office worldwide. Now, according to Deadline, Lord and Miller will produce Paradox Inc., a feature adaptation of Forrest Brazeal's upcoming debut novel, which is "about the rivalry between a scrappy startup and a dysfunctional Big Tech company racing to build the world’s first consumer time machine." The synopsis continues, "The prize: control of reality itself. Maybe… The tech industry's version of time travel doesn't seem to work quite the way you'd expect." More to come...