Adam Sandler Lands Dramatic Role As An Astronaut Fighting For His Marriage

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Adam Sandler

Netflix’s Stars Adam Sandler alongside superstars Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano for his next role with major gravity in the sci-fi drama, Spaceman, where he plays an astronaut fighting for his marriage on Earth from space.

The synopsis reads,

“Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Sandler), realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth.”

“Desperate to fix things with his wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan), he is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship”.

“The creature, named Hanuš, voiced by Paul Dano works with Jakub to make sense of what went wrong before it is too late,”

the synopsis continued.

From the short first-look video, Jakub is seen wading through a shallow body of water, surrounded by trees whilst wearing a spacesuit.

“Just like you, I fled my planet,”

he says in a voiceover.

“Through galaxies, through black holes, through time. And then I found … you,” Jakub concludes and the camera zooms in on his face hidden behind a space helmet,”

the character continued.

The film is Directed by Johan Renck and written by Colby Day. The story is based on the 2017 book by Jaroslav Kalfař; Spaceman Of Bohemia.

When asked about the story, Kalfař said,

“Spaceman began as a short story that I wrote in my last year of college. Originally, it was just a punch line about an American astronaut who was stranded in orbit when he received a call from his wife asking for a divorce.”

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