SAN DIEGO — Comic-Con got a lot of Ryan and a little bit of Rocky at a panel on “Project: Hail Mary,” the forthcoming film that’s equal parts space adventure, real-science deep-dive, broad comedy and relationship drama.

“What’s up Hall H!” a giddy Ryan Gosling in a trucker hat and flannel shirt shouted to the crowd of more than 6,000 at Comic-Con’s biggest venue.

Amazon MGM Studios showed the opening five minutes and several other slightly unfinished scenes from the first third of the film, seven months before its planned release. (Spoilers for that section follow).

It included an extended glimpse at Rocky, the stone-shaped and faceless alien who becomes Gosling’s mission partner as they attempt to save the universe from ecological disaster.

Phil Lord, who codirected the film with Chris Miller, said the relationship between the two beings stuck alone together in space represents the central theme.

“If the universe depended on it,” Miller said, “can adult men make friends?”

Rocky is already a cult favorite for readers of Andy Weir’s novel, and is sure to be a future staple of Comic-Con cosplay.

Asked where Rocky might rank among his great screen relationships, Gosling declined to answer, saying it's too soon to know.

Weir, who was part of the panel, chimed in: “From Emma Stone, to person of stone.”

The film is adapted by screenwriter Drew Goddard, who also wrote the script for the 2015 Matt Damon movie “The Martian,” based on Weir's first novel.

Gosling said he got on board the ship immediately after reading “Project Hail Mary” in manuscript form, and was only partly kidding when he called Weir, who was sitting next to him, “the greatest sci-fi mind of our time.”

“I knew it would be brilliant, because it’s Andy, but nothing could prepare me,” Gosling said. “It took me places I’d never been, it showed me things I’d never seen, it was as heartbreaking as it was funny.”

Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher and underachiever drafted for the mission.

“I connect to his reluctance,” Gosling said. “Aside from he fact that he has a doctorate in molecular biology he’s quite an ordinary person. He reacts to a lot of things that I might or a lot of us might. He's terrified — appropriately — of the task at hand.”

The opening five minutes show a gloppy, long-bearded, amnesiac Gosling as he awakes in a pod. He climbs out, confused. He finds other people in pods who are clearly dead. Then he finds a window and learns he's in space. He gives a mealymouthed scream of “Where am ?!”

When the lights came up in the room, Gosling said that he'd looked in the scene like a “space caveman” in a “placenta onesie.”

The movie represents the return to directing, and return to space, of Lord and Miller for the first time since they were fired and replaced by Ron Howard by Disney and Lucasfilm from 2018’s “Solo.”

Like, “The Martian,” the movie goes heavy on the science — Weir, also a producer, said he spent hours going over every equation one very white board.

But it takes the messy, kitchen-sink, everything-is-comedy approach Lord and Miller used in films like “The Lego Movie.”

“This movie is not a Mac, it’s a PC,” Lord said. “It can be beautiful, it just can’t be pretty.”

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NEW YORK — In celebration of the opening weekend of the highly anticipated sequel “Happy Gilmore 2,” a competition was held to find New York City’s best Adam Sandler look-alike.

Jason Nagin, a lawyer from the Flatiron District who calls the original 1996 “Happy Gilmore” his favorite Sandler flick, emerged as the winner at the Friday event. He took home $50 and a bag of pickles.

“I get told weekly that I look like Adam Sandler,” Nagin told reporters at the contest held at Vesuvio Playground in SoHo. “My whole life really, but definitely in the last 20 years or so.”

According to Nagin, he was supposed to be at work when the competition took place, but was convinced to throw his hat in the ring by his wife, who bought him an oversized T-shirt from Marshall’s so he’d look the part.

Nagin said he’s not an actor and doesn’t do an Adam Sandler impersonation — at least not deliberately.

“People do say not only do I look like him, but I sound like him,” Nagin told reporters. He added that when he arrived at the playground for the contest, he announced “Adam Sandler is here” and may have fooled some attendees.

“I followed him my whole life and his whole career. I’m a fan,” Nagin said. “Definitely a fan.”

Sandler and Nagin haven’t met, though by the sounds of it, a Knicks game might be the right place to make that happen.

“I know he’s a big NBA fan and I’m a big NBA fan as well,” Nagin said.

As for the event itself, Nagin — who belongs to a Facebook group of Sandler look-alikes — said he expected to see more people competing for the cash-and-pickle prize. About a dozen contestants participated in the 3 p.m. competition, when temperatures hovered in the mid-90s and threatened to bring severe thunderstorms to New York City.

“Happy Gilmore 2” continues the story of the combative golfer Sandler brought to life nearly 30 years ago with help from Bob Barker and Carl Weathers, who died in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The film is currently available to stream on Netflix.

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Eve Jobs has officially tied the knot with Olympian Harry Charles.

The 27-year-old youngest daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs married the British equestrian and Olympic gold medalist on Saturday in a lavish $6.7 million ceremony at hotel Estella Manor.

While details of the star-studded nuptials were kept quiet, the Times reports many famous faces were in attendance including Kamala Harris, Bruce Springsteen’s daughter Jessica Springsteen, Kourtney Kardashian and actor Callum Turner.

The evening also featured a performance from Sir Elton John, who was reportedly paid $1 million for his time.

The bride and groom first hard launched their relationship back in August 2024 with an Instagram video of Jobs cheering on her man after he won the gold medal during the Paris Olympics.

“TEAM GOLD!!!!!” Eve captioned the post. “Beyond proud of you my love !!!!”

Though Jobs, an accomplished equestrian herself, has remained tight-lipped about their romance, Jobs gave her followers a peek into her bachelorette party in Italy, posting moments from the celebration paired with the caption, “What a weekend with my favorite girls.”

The Apple heiress has spoken publicly about her late father’s legacy and how seeing iPhones everywhere is a “beautiful reminder” of him.

“All day, every day. It really is,” she told Vanity Fair. “It makes me feel warm.”

From combined wire services