Ryan Gosling is a middle school teacher who is tasked with a mission somehow more impossible than getting his students to care, well, about anything, in the first trailer for Project Hail Mary. The humor-tipped sci-fi film from Amazon MGM Studios arrives in theaters on March 20,

Project Hail Mary centers on middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Gosling), who finds himself on a spaceship with no memory of his past or how he ended up there. His interstellar mission, which must be successfully completed in order to save Earth from a potential disaster, leads him to meet a mysterious alien who also seeks to save his own species.

Ryan Gosling has already played a teacher ("Half Nelson") and an astronaut ("First Man"), but with "Project Hail Mary," he's both. That's right: Gosling is leading the feature as a middle school biology teacher who travels to space to save the universe.