Actor Matt Damon, who stars in the film “The Martian“, smiles after making cement hand prints at the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on August 18, 2015. Let us know in the comments. There’s not whole lot additional footage in the newly released trailer that wasn’t in the original, though it’s clear we’re in for an intense ride.
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In The Martian, Watney must learn to grow plants on Mars so that he might survive a period long enough to be rescued. Interestingly (or just repetitively), both Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon were in Interstellar, in which Damon was also a stranded astronaut. For Wiig, however, “space drama” is a whole new context.
Matt Damon’s ready to kick Mars’ butt!
“I guarantee you that at some point, everything’s going to go south on you”, Watney says in a voiceover at the beginning of the trailer, over visuals of the mission in which Watney’s left for dead after disaster strikes. But much like the runaway hit book by Andy Weir it’s based on, The Martian isn’t just a thrilling adventure story – it’s also laugh-out-loud amusing, too. “I always liked The Right Stuff, which got into the early days of the astronauts, and this, while not the same at all, offered the reality of the situation, the challenges an astronaut may have in 15-20 years”, he said. Our first introduction came from Charles Elachi, the Director of JPL, who introduced a NASA MARS video which gave us a glimpse at the past fifty years of NASA’s quest to explore the planet. With only meagre supplies, Watney must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Back on Earth, a team of NASA scientists try to figure out how to bring him home, while his former crewmates hatch their own risky mission to rescue him.
I’ve been looking forward to two movies this summer.
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“The Martian” premieres in theaters in the UK and Australia on September 30, followed by the US on October 2.
