Actor Ryan Gosling appeared at San Diego Comic-Con to tease his upcoming spacefaring blockbuster `Project Hail Mary`, a science-fiction comedy based on author Andy Weir`s 2021 novel of the same name, reported People.

The movie stars Gosling as a middle school science teacher named Ryland Grace, tasked with travelling into space 11.9 light-years away to determine why dozens of stars and the sun are dying, risking the extinction of all life on Earth.

"It took me places I`ve never been, it showed me things I had never seen," said Gosling of the film. "It was as heartbreaking as it was funny. ... This story is about a scared guy who has to do something impossible. Now, I was a scared guy who had to do something impossible, just trying to turn this into a movie," as per the outlet.