Spaceman on Netflix: Release date, full cast and what new Adam Sandler film is about
29.02.2024 - 14:29
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Adam Sandler is set to remind us he's more than an esteemed comedy performer with his latest Netflix offering. The actor has produced and starred in a number of films on the streaming giant, including the Murder Mystery duology featuring Jennifer Aniston.
Now, Sandler portrays a Czech astronaut on a mission of a lifetime in the upcoming movie Spaceman. Having spent six months alone in the cosmos, Jakub realises his marriage back on earth is doomed.
He finds solace in a mysterious creature hiding in the bowels of his ship named Hanuš. Scrambling to save his relationship, the large, spider-like being helps Jakub make sense of what went wrong before it's too late.
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Based on the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař, it stars Carey Mulligan as Jakub's wife Lenka while Paul Dano voices Hanuš. Jonah Renck - whose previous work includes Chernobyl and Breaking Bad - serves as director.
On Sandler taking on a more serious role in Spaceman, Renck told Netflix: “I don’t think people understand how [although] he may come across as funny and sweet and all that, he’s very intelligent, really smart, profound.”
The original book first began as a short story jotted down in Kalfař's final year of college. The author told Netflix: "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.”
But as he expanded it into a full-length novel, the story grew larger and larger, eventually becoming a tale of love, space, time, and the author’s own Czech family.
Spaceman releases on Friday, March 1 on the streaming giant. It will be available to watch from 8am here in