Ryan Gosling is one of the last great movie stars we have, and he proves it by making himself at home in any genre. Gosling’s great in comedies, competent in action, and divine in drama. But the actor apparently has a soft spot for science fiction. Blade Runner 2049 is one of his best performances, and while Damien Chazelle’s First Man didn’t exactly lift off at the box office, Gosling has a few more attempts on the horizon. He surprised Star Wars fans by boarding Shawn Levy’s upcoming project in that faraway galaxy, but Gosling is first set to star in a story set relatively close to home.
In Project Hail Mary, the Oscar-nominated Gosling teams up with two Oscar-winning directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, to deliver a new riff on the classic interstellar adventure. The film is based on the novel by Andy Weir, the best-selling author of The Martian, and the first trailer teases the kind of genre mash-up both the actor and the Spider-Verse directors are known for, blending physical comedy with serious space science.
