Project Hail Mary fan makes Ryan Gosling’s fox sweater and sells them for $500

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The movie ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a huge hit, and a dedicated fan is now selling handmade copies of the fox sweater worn by Ryan Gosling in the film for $500.

The new science-fiction film is a huge success, earning over $420.7 million in just three weeks and receiving excellent reviews. TopMob praised it as a captivating story about the best of human skill and creativity.

Everyone’s been discussing the movie’s plot, special effects, and the charming alien, Rocky. But a surprising number of fans are also obsessed with the knitted cardigan Ryan Gosling’s character, Dr. Ryland Grace, wears. The original pattern was for a wolf, but the movie version was changed to a fox.

Someone has taken the popular knitting pattern inspired by the fox sweater in the book Project Hail Mary and made their own version. They even managed to sell it for $500!

Project Hail Mary fan says the fox sweater is a “labor of love”

Leann Anderson, an Etsy maker, created the fox sweater Ryan Gosling wore in the movie Project Hail Mary. She started with a pattern from Mary Maxim, originally designed for a wolf, and modified it. Anderson shared on Threads that making the sweater has been a particularly enjoyable project for her.

After ten years as a graphic designer, she’s now a stay-at-home mom who recently learned to knit. She’s particularly proud of her latest project: a Fox cardigan inspired by the book and movie. She used the Mary Maxim’s Wolf pattern as a base and customized the charts to resemble the version worn by the character Grace.

She described the sweater as a passion project, representing everything she’d learned about knitting over the past year. The Etsy listing noted it took her 30 to 40 hours to create, and she priced it at $525, which she felt was fair considering the time and effort involved. She also shared the pattern she adapted on Ravelry, a website where knitters and crocheters can find free patterns.

Ryan Gosling specifically requested the fox design for his Project Hail Mary sweater

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Costume designer Glyn Dillon shared on Instagram that he found the initial wolf-patterned sweater at a vintage market. However, Ryan Gosling asked for it to be altered to feature a fox instead, after noticing foxes while walking around London.

Dillon mentioned he was in London and had seen many of the city’s foxes. While some Londoners see them as a nuisance, Dillon, like Ryan, thinks they’re wonderful and enjoys the special feeling of seeing one at night.

He asked if we could swap out the wolves for foxes, which seemed like a cool idea. We were seriously crunched for time, but it also meant we could update some other visuals, like those really obvious blood-red footprints, which was a plus.

Mary Maxim is now offering the updated pattern, featuring the fox design, along with the yarn needed to make the sweater for about $80. It’s been very popular and has already sold out, as fans eagerly want to create their own version.

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2026-04-09 19:49