Comics in Film: Project Hail Mary (2026), directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
by BK Munn
Ryan Gosling sports a vintage B. Kliban cat t-shirt in this fun heart-warmer of a sci-fi movie about a reluctant scientist hero who travels to another solar system to try to save the earth from a solar apocalypse. Gosling's vintage wardrobe is on point throughout the film (that Mary Maxim wolf sweater!), and this t-shirt, seen throughout the film, encapsulates his disheveled hippy aesthetic and, in a sense, his entire personality: The astronaut is chosen for the interstellar suicide mission in part because he has no-one to love in his life, not even a pet, but is inexplicably attached to the cat-themed tourist t-shirt from his hometown San Francisco. Cartoonist B. Kliban (1935 – 1990) lived in the Bay Area himself and his world-renowned surrealist cartoons and cats are still popular today and, apparently, in the future.
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