"Project Hail Mary" is the upcoming outer space odyssey, based on Andy Weir's 2021 novel, that offers a stirring story of alien first contact.

The first trailer for Project Hail Mary has appeared, with Ryan Gosling playing the lead in an adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel of the same name. It’s a story about a man trying to save the sun, but as the trailer also sets up, it’s a far more intimate tale about one man’s relationship with something completely other.

Ryan Gosling has already played a teacher (“Half Nelson”) and an astronaut (“First Man”), but with “ Project Hail Mary ,” he’s both. That’s right: Gosling is leading the feature as a middle school biology teacher who travels to space to save the universe.