Watch: Asa Butterfield Goes Back To Space In First Trailer For 'The Space Between Us' With Britt Robertson & Gary Oldman

The last time Asa Butterfield went to space, the result was the less than impressive “Ender’s Game.” But the actor is going to give sci-fi another whirl this summer with “The Space Between Us,” and the first trailer is now orbiting the internet.

Directed by Peter Chesolm (“Shall We Dance,” “Hector And The Search For Happiness“), and also featuring Britt Robertson and Gary Oldman, the story centers on a teenager born on a Mars colony, who seeks out his birth father, and strikes up a friendship with a girl in Colorado.

“I first got the script years and years ago,” Butterfield told EW. “It was at a similar time that I read the script for ‘Ender’s Game.’ And so it’s been in the pipeline for years. And at that time, the character was also a lot younger. So I was in the running for that, and the script sort of developed the same way I did, I guess.”

“Ultimately, it’s all about [his character] Gardner finding his humanity and what it means to be human, through quite literally experiencing Earth for the first time,” the actor added.

“The Space Between Us” opens on August 19th. Watch the trailer above.