Ryan Gosling is a reluctant space traveler in the official trailer for Project Hail Mary.
The Amazon MGM film is based on The New York Times bestselling novel by Andy Weir. It follows middle school teacher Ryland Grace, played by Gosling, who finds himself on a spacecraft with no memory of his past or even how he arrived there.
Ryland must successfully complete an interstellar mission to save Earth from a disaster. This leads him to meet an alien who is also trying to save its own species.
“I just woke up from a coma. I’m several light years from my apartment and I’m not an astronaut,” Ryland says in the trailer.
“If you don’t go, you die. With the rest of us,” Eva, played by Sandra Hüller, tells him in response.
He does not respond very well to the idea of taking on such a dangerous mission.
“I put the not in astronaut,” Ryland says. “I’ve never done anything—I’ve never done a space—I can’t even moonwalk!
The Oscar-winning filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directed the upcoming movie.
Milana Vayntrub also stars alongside Gosling and Hüller.
Project Hail Mary blasts off into movie theaters and IMAX screens on March 20, 2026.
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