A-List Hollywood heartthrob is unrecognizable in long beard and wig in Project Hail Mary trailer

Daily Mail​

7 hours ago

The trailer for Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary has dropped and its A-List star looks unrecognizable.
Ryan Gosling plays bookish school-teacher turned astronaut Ryland Grace in forthcoming science fiction film adapted from author Andy Weir's 2021 novel of the same name.
He looks completely different in a long haired wig and long, scruffy beard.
Fans of this actor may be able to suss out his identity through his soulful blue eyes that give away his true identity, no matter how different he looks from his everyday style.
In the trailer, Ryan wakes up in this disheveled state, confused and wondering where he is.
He has no memory of his past or how he ended up on the spaceship.
His character states that he just woke up from a coma in outer space and is 'several light-years' away from his apartment.
'I'm not an astronaut,' he declares multiple times, as the trailer reveals the event leading up to him going to space.
Ryland is a middle school teacher with a PhD in molecular biology and is recruited by a space force to figure out why the stars, including the sun, are dying out.
As the trailer goes on it is revealed the stars were infected with something deadly and it is Ryland's job to find out why.
Ryland's mission to space is a 'Hail Mary,' last ditch effort to stop the stars from dying and save all life forms.
He expresses hesitancy at being tasked to save all life, saying, 'I understand the stakes, I do. But my place is in the classroom.'
He did not want to go to space but when he was told he'd die along with everyone else, he changed his mind.
As the trailer goes on, we see Ryland shave his tangled beard off and break down in tears at the enormity of the mission he's been tasked with.
At the end of the trailer, Ryland declares that he's met an alien and he tries to teach it Hacky Sack and how to do a thumbs-up.
It is revealed that the alien has been tasked with the same job as Ryland. He needs to figure out how to save his species.
The trailer features Harry Styles' Sign of the Times as it follows Ryland's attempts to save, essentially, the universe.
The film is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and hits theaters on March 20, 2026.
The first footage of the film debuted at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
Sandra Hüller's character ominously says, 'The sun is not the only star dying. If we do nothing, everything on this planet will go extinct.'
At CinemaCon, Gosling took a playful swipe at his directors, saying of Lord and Miller, 'They are only happy if they make you do the very rare and coveted laugh-cry.'
'It's an insanely ambitious story that's massive in scope, and it seemed really hard to make, and that's kind of our bag,' Gosling said about the film at CinemaCon, per Variety.
He continued: 'This is why we go to the movies. And I'm not just saying it because I'm in it. I'm also saying it because I'm a producer on the film.'
Project Hail Mary also features Sandra Hüller, known for 2023's The Zone of Interest" and Anatomy of a Fall.
The screenplay was written by Drew Goddard.