Details

Release year: 2015

Storyline

An astronaut stranded on Mars must rely on his ingenuity to survive and arrange a potential rescue.

Top credits

Directors

Ridley Scott

Writers

Cast

Matt Damon — Mark Watney
Jessica Chastain — Melissa Lewis
Kristen Wiig — Annie Montrose
Kate Mara — Beth Johanssen

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Awards

0 wins & 7 nominations

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Did you know

• In the novel, when Watney is rescued, he mentions that if this were a Hollywood movie, the entire crew would gather in the airlock and high-five each other. This is exactly what happens at the end of the movie.

• Rich Purnell slips and falls after he finds a way to rescue Mark Watney and tells his boss "I need more coffee." Donald Glover revealed in an interview that he slipped for real and just got up and continued to act, and the footage was retained in the final edits for the movie.

• Matt Damon admitted that the scene where Mark was getting emotional upon hearing Commander Lewis' voice was genuine. The other actors had wrapped and gone home, and their pre-recorded voices were actually being played to Damon from inside his spacesuit. When Damon began to think about how his character had been all alone on Mars for two years, alongside how he was only hearing pre-recorded voices of his co-stars who had already finished their scenes, he began to tear up. Sir Ridley Scott was so impressed with Damon's performance, that he only did one take of the scene, which was used in the film.