The New Trailer For Project Hail Mary Shows Ryan Gosling Saving the World With One Adorable Alien Sidekick

A new mission is born — and it’s the one we’ve all been waiting for. The second trailer for the highly anticipated Project Hail Mary film adaptation is finally here, and there’s no denying it looks pretty incredible.

In the new trailer for the sci-fi epic, we see how lead character Dr. Ryland Grace becomes entangled with a life-changing mission he initially feels unprepared to go on. But the powers that be believe he’s the only one for the job, which sees him in space working closely with an alien who resembles a rock formation (a super cute rock formation at that) to save both of their planets.

Other than the three minutes of footage we get from the sneak peek, the details we have for Project Hail Mary remain fairly sparse. In the YouTube description on Amazon MGM’s official YouTube page, we get the film’s tagline: “An unlikely friendship. An impossible mission.” But that’s about it for new information this time around.

The first trailer for Project Hail Mary was released at the end of June — and it totally blew up online, garnering over 400 million views in a single week. At the time, that was a record for a film that was not a sequel or a remake.

Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as a professor, scientist, and astronaut who wakes up one day on a spaceship with no recollection of how he got there and a new mission that will put him at the center of saving humanity from a catastrophic event. Sandra Huller and Milana Vayntrub will star alongside Gosling, who also produced the project. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse fame have teamed up once again for their first directed film in 12 years following 2014’s 22 Jump Street. Project Hail Mary is based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, from a screenplay by Drew Goddard.

Project Hail Mary is set to be released in theaters, and on IMAX, on March 20, 2026.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.