Netflix has dropped the primary trailer for its subsequent collaboration with Adam Sandler, Spaceman, which guarantees to as soon as once more showcase the actor’s dramatic chops. The movie is a sci-fi drama, with Saltburn’s Carey Mulligan and The Batman’s Paul Dano in different lead roles.

Clocking in at beneath 30 seconds, the Spaceman trailer offers little away. Largely, we see Sandler’s astronaut character, Jakub, wading by way of a river in the course of a forest, whereas Dano’s alien Hanuš introduces itself in a disembodied voice-over. Test it out for your self:

The synopsis goes into somewhat extra element in regards to the dramatic battle that sits on the heart of the movie: “An astronaut realizes that the wedding he left behind may not be ready for him when he returns to Earth. Determined to sort things along with his spouse, he’s helped by a mysterious historical creature he finds hiding within the bowels of his ship.”

Spaceman is predicated on the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař, which chronicles the sci-fi story of a Czech astronaut despatched on a solo, harmful mission to discover an odd cloud of cosmic mud. The story is about his loneliness, his more and more strained relationship along with his spouse again on Earth, and his reference to Hanuš.

Chernobyl director Johan Renck has taken up directing duties based mostly on a script by Colby Day. Mulligan performs Jakub’s spouse, Lenka, whereas Kunal Nayyar performs Petr, his mission engineer. The movie is slated to launch on Netflix on March 1, 2024.

Spaceman is the most recent mission from Sandler’s long-running collaboration with Netflix, which started with 2015’s The Ridiculous 6 and has resulted in a wildly numerous set of movies, together with the broadly acclaimed The Meyerowitz Tales.