Johan Renck’s upcoming sci-fi movie may even star Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano

As soon as he was Cajun Man and Opera Man, now the Sandman, Adam Sandler, is the titular Spaceman in Johan Renck’s new sci-fi flick arriving on Netflix March 1.

Within the film, Sandler performs Jakub, an astronaut on a analysis mission on the far edges of the photo voltaic system, who’s abruptly struck by the concern that his already rocky marriage to Carey Mulligan’s Lenka won’t survive the pressure and size of his intergalactic journey. Throughout his travels, Jakub unexpectedly meets a wierd spider-like creature named Hanuš (voiced by Paul Dano), who endeavors to assist Jakub make sense of his relationship with Lenka and doubtlessly repair it earlier than it’s too late. 

A brand new “first look” teaser for Spaceman finds Jakub wading by way of a river in his spacesuit, whereas Hanuš ruminates about his personal journey and the way it led to this fateful encounter: “Similar to you, I fled my planet. By galaxies, by way of blackholes, by way of time, after which I discover… you.” 

Together with Sandler, Dano, and Mulligan, Spaceman will function Kunal Nayyar, Lena Olin, with Isabella Rossellini. Spaceman relies on Jaroslav Kalfař 2017 novel, Spaceman of Bohemia, with a screenplay written by Colby Day. 

Spaceman finds Sandler dipping again into his dramatic bag for the primary time since his 2022 basketball flick, Hustle. This 12 months, he dropped a trio of attribute comedies, together with the animated movie Leo, Murder Mystery 2 with Jennifer Aniston, and You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, which featured the entire Sandler mishpocha. Sandler can be reportedly engaged on new tasks with earlier collaborators Noah Baumbach and the Safdie Brothers.