New Ridley Scott Film "The Martian" - Real Tech from the Movie

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Here's a clip, as per usual with clips nowadays, they ruin the film, maybe don't watch past 50seconds....or whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8

On October 2, movie audiences will get to see Ridley Scott's adaptation of Andy Weir's brilliant sci-fi novel The Martian, about a near-future astronaut who gets left for dead on the planet Mars. (Official trailer.) Both book and film are rooted in actual science, and NASA has now posted a list of technologies featured in the movie that either already exist, or are in development. For example, the Mars rover: "On Earth today, NASA is working to prepare for every encounter with the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle (MMSEV). The MMSEV has been used in NASA's analog mission projects to help solve problems that the agency is aware of and to reveal some that may be hidden. The technologies are developed to be versatile enough to support missions to an asteroid, Mars, its moons and other missions in the future." They also show off their efforts to develop water reclamation, gardens in space, and oxygen recovery.

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Nine Real NASA Technologies in 'The Martian'


Q&A with folk involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPlElPBaymw

Why 'The Martian' is NASA's best marketing event in years

dbran

Really enjoyed reading the book. It was very well thought out and accurate. Hope the film does it justice though.

animaal

I've read the book and enjoyed it. But I can't see how it would translate to film. The story was almost completely concerned with planning, calculations, science, etc. And since for most of the story the main character was alone, almost everything (outside of a few key scenes) took place in his head. So I hope we don't wind up with 90 mins of Matt Damon talking aloud to himself.

But I suppose I could have said similar about Interstellar, so I'm still hopeful...

Gwynston

There probably will be a lot of Matt Damon talking to himself, but I think he has the charisma to pull it off. And the decision to make the narrative akin to video blogs will work much better on screen than the keyboard-written log entries of the book.

Judging by the size and calibre of the supporting cast, I'd say the proportion of Mars footage vs the rest will be around 50:50, whereas the book was probably 80% set on Mars.

Gwynston

Almost universally positive reviews so far following the movie's launch at the Toronto International Film Festival:
Rotten Tomatoes
IMDB/Metacritic

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We look at the real-life science of the spacecraft and mission in the book and movie.

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5 EXCITING TECHNOLOGIES NASA'S DEVELOPING SO WE CAN MAKE IT TO MARS AND BACK

How Close Are We to 'The Martian'?

Gwynston

Finally saw this on the weekend and really enjoyed it. My younger kids found it a bit over-long and talky, but I guess it wasn't intended for that audience.

They managed to translate most of what's in the book without going to the nth degree of detail that that covered.

Despite a couple of fairly major sequences omitted, it stuck pretty close to the story.

The dust storm that hampers Watney's long rover journey and also the rover rolling when he finally reaches the crater were both left out, for timing reasons, I guess. They had already covered a lot of setbacks he'd had to overcome and wanted to get to the exciting rescue in space.

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Approaching the Unknown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQx2eosUlXY