Ryan Gosling reluctantly goes to space in 'Project Hail Mary' trailer

Ryan Gosling puts the “not” successful “Astronaut” successful the caller trailer for “Project Hail Mary.”

The upcoming sci-fi film, based connected Andy Weir‘s caller of the aforesaid name, stars Gosling arsenic mediate schoolhouse teacher turned reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace, who’s tasked with redeeming humanity from the effects of a dimming sun. However, erstwhile helium wakes up from a coma arsenic the sole subsister aboard a spaceship, helium indispensable flooded his amnesia to retrieve wherever helium is and wherefore helium was sent there.

“It’s an insanely ambitious communicative that’s monolithic successful scope and it seemed truly hard to make, and that’s benignant of our bag,” Gosling said of “Project Hail Mary” astatine CinemaCon successful April, wherever helium debuted footage from the film, according to Variety. “This is wherefore we spell to the movies. And I’m not conscionable saying it due to the fact that I’m successful it. I’m besides saying it due to the fact that I’m a shaper connected the film.”

The trailer, released Monday by Amazon MGM Studios, opens with Gosling startling awake connected the spacecraft, his hairsbreadth and beard uncharacteristically long. “I’m respective light-years from my apartment,” helium proclaims, “and I’m not an astronaut.”

It past jolts backmost successful clip to amusement Grace pre-launch arsenic helium learns from Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) that if helium does not travel into space, everything connected Earth volition spell extinct. According to Stratt, who heads the mission, Grace is the lone idiosyncratic who mightiness recognize what is happening to the prima and surrounding stars.

The trailer, which progresses done an aggravated montage acceptable to Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times,” teases Gosling’s signature humor. “I can’t adjacent moonwalk!” the “Barbie” histrion declares astatine 1 point. (Gosling portrayed moonwalker Neil Armstrong successful different caller abstraction movie, Damien Chazelle’s “First Man.”)

Everything leads up to Grace gathering an alien, who isn’t shown successful afloat — but fans of the publication cognize it plays an integral relation successful redeeming satellite Earth and beyond.

The film, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, marks the 2nd book-to-movie adaptation for Weir, whose caller “The Martian” became an Oscar-nominated 2015 blockbuster starring Matt Damon. An adaptation for his publication “Artemis” is besides successful improvement with the aforesaid directing team.

“Project Hail Mary” hits theaters March 20.