After 29 Years, Say Goodbye to Ethan Hawke's Essential 106-Minute Sci-Fi Thriller

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Published Mar 14, 2026, 1:20 PM EDT

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2025 proved to be a monster year for Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke. He made a major return to the small screen through FX with the acclaimed comedy-drama The Lowdown, casting him as bookstore owner-turned-investigative journalist Lee Raybon. The series has since been renewed for a second season with some big new names on board, including Tommy Lee Jones. On the big screen, however, he was even busier, appearing in the Tribeca world premiere of She Dances with Steve Zahn, returning from beyond the grave as The Grabber for Black Phone 2, and embodying famed lyricist Lorenz Hart in Richard Linklater's biopic Blue Moon. The latter even earned Hawke his fifth Academy Award nod and first nomination for Best Actor.

While viewers wait to see if Hawke pulls off a win in a crowded field featuring Michael B. Jordan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, and Wagner Moura, one of his best cult classics is currently available to stream for free. Released in 1997, Gattaca fell flat at the box office with only $12.5 million despite high marks from critics, yet it has since been seen as one of the great sci-fi movies of the last 30 years and an influential, still surprisingly prescient story that wrestles with the concept of genetic engineering, discrimination, and fate. At the center of it all is Vincent Freeman (Hawke), a man with a dream of going to outer space who is denied the chance due to being conceived without genetic engineering. To get around being an "in-valid," he purchases the genetic material of a lab-engineered valid athlete named Jerome (Jude Law) and sneaks into the Gattaca space program, though a murder within its ranks threatens to compromise his position.

Gattaca was written and directed by Andrew Niccol and featured a star-studded cast around Hawke and Law, including Uma Thurman as Vincent's love interest and fellow Gattaca employee, Irene, alongside Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin. Though Tubi is its current home for now, that won't be the case for long for the sci-fi thriller, as it's among the many titles set to be rotated off the platform after March 31. Coincidentally, it will be leaving around the same time as Niccol's other creative sci-fi flick, In Time, which built on similar ideas for its own dystopian story set in a world where time is literal currency, and the divide between the haves and have-nots is greater than ever.

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Will 'Gattaca' Ever Get a Reboot or Sequel?

Almost exactly three years ago, Showtime was aiming to give Gattaca new life through a sequel series from Homeland duo Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. It would have taken place a full generation after the film, perhaps showing the impact of Vincent's inspiring rise in a world that shuns in-valids. Notably, Danny DeVito, one of the producers of the original film, was also on board to executive produce the show. However, after Showtime shook up its content strategy to focus on original IP over licensed content, the series was left as one of many casualties. Despite Sony Pictures Television searching, it ultimately never found a home elsewhere, either.

Gattaca will leave Tubi at the end of March. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on all the hottest titles coming to and leaving streaming throughout the year.