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''The Martian'' is a 2015
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directed by Ridley Scott and starring
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.
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adapted the screenplay from the 2011 novel '' The Martian'' by
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. The film depicts an astronaut's lone struggle to survive on
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after being left behind and the efforts of
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to rescue him and bring him home to
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. It also stars Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels,
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, and
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. Produced through
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, the film is a coproduction of the United Kingdom and the United States. Producer
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began developing the film after Fox
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the novel in March 2013, which
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adapted into a screenplay and was initially attached to direct, but the film did not move forward. Scott replaced Goddard as director, and with Damon in place as the main character, production was approved. Filming began in November 2014 and lasted approximately seventy days. Twenty sets were built on one of the largest sound stages in the world in
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.
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in
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was also used for exterior filming. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2015, while the London premiere was held on September 24, 2015. The film was released in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2015, and in the United States on October 2, 2015, in 2D, 3D, IMAX 3D and 4DX. It received positive reviews and grossed over $630 million worldwide, becoming Scott's highest-grossing film to date, as well as the 10th-highest-grossing film of 2015. ''The Martian'' received mostly positive reviews for its direction, visual effects, musical score, screenplay, scientific accuracy, and likability, largely due to Damon's performance. It received several accolades, including the
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, seven nominations at the
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, including
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and Best Adapted Screenplay for Goddard, and the 2016 long form
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. Damon won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for several awards including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the
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, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor.


Plot

In 2035, the crew of the Ares III
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is exploring
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on Martian solar day (sol) 18 of their 31- sol expedition. A severe
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threatens to topple their Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). The mission is scrubbed, but as the crew evacuates, astronaut Mark Watney is struck by debris. The
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from his suit's bio-monitor is damaged and Watney is erroneously presumed dead. With the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) on the verge of toppling, the remaining crew takes off for their orbiting vessel, the ''Hermes''. Watney awakens after the storm, injured and with a low-oxygen warning. He returns to the crew's surface habitat ("Hab") and treats his wound. As Watney recovers, he begins a video diary. Unable to communicate with Earth, his only chance of rescue is the next Mars mission. In four years, the Ares IV will land away at the Schiaparelli crater. Watney's immediate concern is food; being a
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, he creates a garden inside the Hab using
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fertilized with the crew's bio-waste and manufactures water from leftover rocket fuel. He then cultivates potatoes using whole potatoes reserved for a special Thanksgiving meal. He also begins modifying the
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for the journey to the Ares IV MAV site. On Earth,
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satellite planner Mindy Park, reviewing satellite images, notices moved equipment and realizes Watney must be alive. NASA director Teddy Sanders releases the news to the public, but decides not to tell the Ares III crew so that they will remain focused on their mission, over
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Mitch Henderson's strong objection. Watney takes the rover on a one-month journey to retrieve the ''
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'' probe, which fell silent in 1997. Using ''Pathfinder''s camera and motor, he establishes visual contact with NASA. NASA transmits a
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to link the
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with ''Pathfinder'', enabling communication by text. Sanders finally allows Henderson to inform Watney's crewmates. Mars missions director Vincent Kapoor and
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(JPL) director Bruce Ng prepare a
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to deliver enough food for Watney to survive until Ares IV's arrival. However, the Hab's airlock blows out, exposing the Hab to the harsh Martian environment; the potato plants all die. Now, to save time, Sanders orders the routine safety inspections be bypassed. His gamble fails, and the
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rocket explodes soon after lift-off. The China National Space Administration has developed a secret
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rocket, the ''Taiyang Shen'' (lit. the "Sun God"). The decision is made to use the rocket to resupply Watney. However, JPL
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Rich Purnell devises an alternative plan: have the ''Taiyang Shen'' rendezvous with and resupply the ''Hermes'', which will then use Earth's gravity to "slingshot" back to Mars two years earlier than Ares IV. Sanders rejects the idea, considering it too risky for the ''Hermes'' crew. Henderson surreptitiously sends Purnell's proposal to the crew; they unanimously vote to implement it without seeking NASA approval, disabling NASA's remote controls and making the course change. Sanders is forced to support them publicly, but demands Henderson resign after the Ares III mission is complete. Watney begins the 90-sol journey to Schiaparelli, where the MAV for Ares IV has been pre-positioned. He must use it to rendezvous with the ''Hermes'', but it needs to be lightened considerably. After takeoff, when the MAV run out of fuel, its velocity relative to the ''Hermes'' is too fast for Watney to be picked up.
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Lewis quickly improvises, using an explosive to breach a forward airlock, resulting in air escaping violently and slowing down the ''Hermes''. It is still not enough; using a tethered Manned Maneuvering Unit, Lewis is unable to reach Watney. Watney pierces his pressure suit, using the escaping air to propel himself to Lewis, ending his 543 sols alone on Mars. After returning to Earth, Watney becomes a survival instructor for astronaut candidates. Five years later, as the Ares V is about to launch, those involved in Watney's rescue are seen in their current lives.


Cast

Chastain prepared for her role by meeting with astronauts and scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. She was inspired by astronaut
Tracy Caldwell Dyson Tracy Caldwell Dyson (born Tracy Ellen Caldwell; August 14, 1969) is an American chemist and NASA astronaut. Caldwell Dyson was a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' flight STS-118 in August 2007 and part of the Expedition 23 and ...
, saying "She's very matter of fact, very straightforward. My character is dealing with the guilt of leaving a crew member behind, but she's still responsible for the lives of five other crew mates. I tried to play her as Tracy would have been in those moments." Damon prepared for the role by a different method than Chastain. He explained, "For me the rehearsal process was sitting with Ridley and going kind of line-by-line and moment-by-moment through the script and playing out a plan of attack for what we wanted each scene to accomplish." The Media Action Network for Asian-Americans (MANAA) criticized the casting of white actor Mackenzie Davis as Mindy Park who it said was described by author
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as Korean-American. The group also criticized the casting of Chiwetel Ejiofor as Vincent Kapoor, who the MANAA said Weir described as an Asian Indian character. In the novel, the character's name was Venkat Kapoor, and he identifies religiously as a
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(a
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and a Hindu in the film). The group called the casting whitewashing and said that Asian actors, being under-represented in Hollywood, were deprived of acting opportunities. Weir said in October 2015 he perceived Mindy Park as Korean but said he did not explicitly write her as Korean. He also dismissed criticism of Ejiofor's casting as Kapoor, " apoors an American. Americans come from lots of different sources. You can be Venkat Kapoor and black." In the original novel, Weir intentionally avoided including the physical descriptions of his characters.
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was cast as Ryoko, a member of the JPL team. She filmed her scenes but they were removed from the final cut, resulting in her appearance becoming a silent role.


Production


Development

''The Martian'' was directed by Scott and based on a screenplay by
Drew Goddard Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American filmmaker. He began his career writing episodes for the television shows ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', ''Alias'', and ''Lost''. After moving into screenwriting in fi ...
that was adapted from Weir's 2011 novel of the same name.
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the novel in March 2013, and producer
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was attached to develop the novel into a film. The following May, Goddard entered negotiations with the studio to write and direct ''The Martian''. Goddard wrote a screenplay for the film and
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expressed interest in starring under Goddard's direction. Goddard then pursued an opportunity to direct ''Sinister Six'', a comic book film about a team of supervillains. Kinberg then brought the book to Scott's attention. In May 2014, Scott entered negotiations with the studio to direct the film with Damon cast as the film's stranded astronaut. Scott said he was attracted by the emphasis on science and thought a balance could be struck between entertainment and learning. Damon said he was attracted by the novel, the screenplay, and the opportunity to work with Scott. Following Scott's commitment, the project picked up the pace and was quickly approved. Goddard has since expressed that he felt Scott made a much better film than he could have directed, telling ''Creative Screenwriting'', "When it's Scott, collaboration is easy because I just revere him. Every day I would just look around and think, 'Is that really Ridley Scott sitting there at the table? This is exciting!


Filming

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west of
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, Hungary, in the wine-making village of
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was chosen for filming interior scenes of ''The Martian''. It had one of the largest
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s in the world. Filming began in Hungary on November 24, 2014. Around 20 sets were constructed for the film, which was filmed with 3D cameras. Actual potatoes were grown in a sound stage next to the one used for filming. They were planted at different times so that different stages of growth could be shown in film scenes. A team of six people built 15 suits for the film. External scenes, some with Matt Damon, were filmed in
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, a
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world heritage site located in
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, over eight days in March 2015. Wadi Rum had been used as a location for other films set on Mars, including ''
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'' (2000), '' Red Planet'' (2000) and ''
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'' (2013). Total filming time for the film lasted approximately 70 days. A special Mars rover model was built for the filming; the movie cast and team presented the rover model to Jordan in return for the hospitality they had received. The rover is now exhibited in Jordan's
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. Weir avoided writing Watney as lonely and depressed in his novel. While Watney's humor is preserved in the film, Scott also depicted the character's isolation in the vast, dusty Martian landscape.
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of ''
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'' wrote: "The scenes back on Earth provide a hectic, densely populated counterweight to the Martian aridity, which is magnificently represented by exteriors shot in the vicinity of Wadi Rum in Jordan." Damon said he and Scott were inspired by the documentary film '' Touching the Void'' (2003), which featured trapped mountain climbers. Scott also expected to film Watney as a
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, a character in full isolation, but learned to film Watney differently since the character would be self-monitoring his behavior under the watch of various mission cameras. According to Scott, the first cut of the movie was 2 hours and 45 minutes long. An extended cut of the movie was released on home video.


NASA involvement

When the novel was first published,
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invited Weir to tour the Johnson Space Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When Scott began preparing the film, Weir contacted NASA to collaborate on the film. When Scott and producer
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had their first production meeting, they called NASA and spoke with its film and television liaison Bert Ulrich. NASA decided to assist the filmmakers with depicting the science and technology in ''The Martian'' since it saw potential in promoting space exploration. Key NASA staff members that joined the partnership were James L. Green, the Director of the Planetary Science Division, and
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, the Program Executive for Solar System Exploration. Scott conversed with Green twice before filming started. Over a period of a month, NASA answered hundreds of questions—on a weekly basis—on everything from radioisotope systems to the look of potential "habs"—the residences for future Mars astronauts. The questions were answered by Green or passed on to the right expert, and then came back to Scott's team to make their way into the production. The space agency also sent hundreds of files of real images of Mars and images of control centers, down to what the computer screens look like, to the production team. Green arranged a tour of the Johnson Space Center in
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for production designer
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, who met with individual specialists, taking hundreds of photos as he went for eight hours. The production designer created a futuristic, heavily modernized Mission Control as a studio set; '' Ars Technica'' described its depiction as "the space agency that we all dream of" and the opposite of the real Johnson Center's appearance as "a run down college campus". ''
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'' said NASA collaborated more with ''The Martian'' than most other films: "Staff from many NASA departments consulted on the film, from script development through principal photography, and are now helping with marketing timed to the theatrical release." As part of the collaboration, the production's NASA liaison included the front page of the script for the film in the payload of the spacecraft Orion during its
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on December 5, 2014. The ''
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'' said NASA and the wider scientific community anticipated the film as a way to publicize a
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. The ''New York Times'' reports that the film "serves as a nice plug for NASA, which has returned the favor by pushing the movie on its website. (On Monday eptember 28, 2015 scientists announced that signs of liquid water could be seen in photographs taken on Mars by a camera on the
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, timing that suggests NASA certainly has the whole cross-promotion thing down.)" Jim Erickson, NASA project manager, said the film would show moviegoers "the risks and rewards" of humans traveling to Mars. In October 2015, NASA presented a new web tool to follow Watney's trek across Mars and details of NASA's next steps, as well as a health hazards report for a real-world human journey to Mars. In 2016, then sitting U.S. President
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who made the annual NASA budget requests to Congress, named ''The Martian'' as among the best science fiction films he had ever seen.


Music

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composed the score for ''The Martian''. It is the fourth collaboration between Gregson-Williams and Scott. Gregson-Williams previously worked on music for Scott's films ''
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'' (2012) and '' Exodus: Gods and Kings'', composing the main film score for the first and last films, and doing additional music for the other two. A running gag in the film is commander Melissa Lewis's love for 1970s songs (especially of the disco genre, which apparently Watney hates), the only music available to Watney on Mars which often appears as
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. The soundtrack includes: * "
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* " Hot Stuff" by
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" by Gloria Gaynor (
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) The exit music, which includes "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "I Will Survive," is a commentary on Watney's situation on Mars.


Marketing

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launched a
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campaign for ''The Martian''. On June 7, 2015, NASA astronaut
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shared an in-universe
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depicting Damon's character and the other crew members. '' Ars Technica'' compared the video diary to similar viral videos marketed for Scott's 2012 film ''Prometheus'' in having a similar "style of slickly produced fictional promotional material". The studio then released an official trailer on June 8. ''
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'' said, "20th Century Fox has cut together a pretty perfect trailer in that it absolutely makes the sale. It establishes the stakes, offers a sympathetic lead character, shows off an all-star cast, tosses out a potential catchphrase, and ends on a grimly humorous tagline." In response to the trailer,
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, host of the late-night talk show ''
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'', released a spoof trailer, ''The Mastronaut: Emission to Mars'', that edited the original to parody the film. At the start of August, Fox released another video, depicting interviews with each of the main crew members. Mid-month, the studio released another film trailer, and NASA hosted a "Martian Day" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to both promote ''The Martian'' and highlight the space program's ongoing efforts to carry out a
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. At the end of August, Fox released another video, presenting it as a special episode of the TV series '' StarTalk'' in which astrophysicist
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discusses the hazards of traveling to Mars. In September, Scott's RSA Films released a teaser for ''The Martian'' that depicted Damon wearing
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sports clothing and being active in his off-world tasks. The teaser originated from a collaboration between RSA Films and the marketing shop 3AM (under theatrical advertising agency Wild Card), initiated in 2014, to produce advertising content for ''The Martian''. RSA contacted the advertising agency
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, under whom Under Armour is a client. Droga5 ultimately collaborated with WME and 3AM to produce the teaser. ''Forbes''s Peter Himler said American astronauts had traditionally been used by public relations to promote commercial products, starting with the drink
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. Himler said it "came as no surprise" that NASA astronauts in the
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were reported by ''
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'' and ''
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'' as having read Weir's novel and hoping to see the film on board the ISS. NASA participated in the marketing of the film despite its lack of involvement with previous films. Though it turned down a request for '' Interstellar'' to be screened on the ISS, ''The Martian'' was screened on board 402 km (250 miles) above the Earth's surface on September 19, 2015, and also at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and at the
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at
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on October 1, 2015. In November 2015, 20th Century Fox announced ''The Martian VR Experience'', a "virtual reality adventure" where viewers play as Mark Watney and reenact scenes from the film. The project was executive produced by Scott alongside Joel Newton and directed by Robert Stromberg. It was released for
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and
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on November 15, 2016, and is also available for the
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and
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. The project won 2 major awards; a
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at the
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and an AICP Award.


Release

''The Martian'' premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2015. The film screened in a sneak preview at the
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on September 27, 2015. It also screened at
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in Austin,
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, on September 29, 2015. The film was released in the
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format in
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in North America.


Box office forecast

Two months before ''The Martian''s release, ''
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'' forecast that the film would gross on its opening weekend in the United States and ultimately in its theatrical run. The magazine said positive factors for its performance included the continued sales of Weir's novel, Scott's success with past science fiction films, and the positive reception of prior space-based films ''
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'' (2013) and '' Interstellar'' (2014). The magazine said negative factors included Damon not being a consistent draw at the box office, ''Gravity'' and ''Interstellar'' setting high expectations, and Scott's "stumble" with his previous film ''Exodus: Gods and Kings'' (2014). A week before the film's release, pre-release trackings in North America (United States and Canada) showed that the film was on pace to earn between $40–50 million at its opening weekend from 3,826 theaters. In comparison to other contemporary space films, ''Gravity'', facing far less competition, opened to a better-than-expected $55.8 million in 2013. In November 2014, ''Interstellar'' debuted to $47.5 million. Unlike ''Gravity'' and ''Interstellar'', which had the benefit of IMAX locations, boosting profits, ''The Martian'' was not initially playing in IMAX, since IMAX was committed to an exclusive run of Robert Zemeckis' '' The Walk''. ''The Martian'' played in more than 350 premium large-format theaters including 2,550 3D locations. Also, the film was released several days after the announcement of NASA's discovery of water on Mars' planetary surface, which might have aided in boosting its opening. Ticket selling website
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reported that the film was outselling ''Gravity''. Unlike ''Gravity'', ''The Martian'' did not contain abundant 3D spectacle (even though it was filmed in 3D), and was longer than ''Gravity''.


Theatrical run

''The Martian'' was a financial success. It grossed $228.4 million in the United States & Canada and $402.2 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $630.6 million against a budget of $108 million. Worldwide, it was the highest-grossing Fox film of 2015 and the tenth-highest-grossing film of that year overall. ''
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'' calculated the net profit of the film to be $150.32 million, accounting for production budgets, P&A, talent participations, and other costs, with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from home media, placing it tenth on their list of 2015's "Most Valuable Blockbusters"; and ''
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'' reported around $80–100 million profits for the film. The film was released in theaters in 2D and 3D. In the United Kingdom, it was released on September 30, 2015, a Wednesday, and in the United States on the following Friday, October 2, 2015. It was also released in 49 markets including Mexico, Hong Kong, India and Taiwan from the weekend October 2–4, 2015 and expanded to Germany, Russia, and South Korea the following weekend. It opened in Spain on October 16, then France on October 21. China opened on November 25 and Japan bowed in the first quarter of 2016 on February 5. Various sites estimated the film to gross between $45 and $50 million over its opening weekend in the United States. In North America, it opened on Friday, October 2, 2015, and earned $18.06 million on its opening day of which $2 million came from premium large formats from 3,831 theaters. The film's Friday gross included $2.5 million from late-night Thursday screenings that took place in 2,800 theaters. During its opening weekend, it earned $54.3 million from 3,831 theaters ranking first at the box office which is the second biggest October opening, behind ''Gravity'' ($55.7 million) and the second biggest for Scott, behind '' Hannibal'' ($58 million) and Damon, behind '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' ($69.2 million). The film made $6 million at 375 premium large format screens. 3D accounted for 45% of the ticket sales while
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3D accounted for 42% or $23 million of that sales which is one of highest for the 3D company in 2015. The film fell short of breaking ''Gravity''s record which might have been hurt by
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, the NFL season and the last day of the Major League Baseball regular season. In its second weekend of release, it dropped gradually by 31.9% and earned $37 million from 3,854 theaters (+23 theaters) maintaining the top position. ''The Martian''s demographics in its sophomore weekend remained in sync with its opening frame drawing 52% males and 72% over 25. It topped the box office for two consecutive weekends before being dethroned by ''
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'' in its third weekend after a close race between the two ($23.6 million for ''Goosebumps'' and $21.3 million for ''The Martian''). It returned to the top of the box office for the third time in its fourth weekend, and went on the top the box office for four non-consecutive weekends before being overtaken by ''
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'' in its fifth weekend. On November 5, the film surpassed '' Gladiator'' ($187.7 million) to become Scott's highest-grossing film at the domestic box office. Internationally, ''The Martian'' was released in a total of 81 countries. Outside North America, it opened on the same weekend in 54 markets and grossed $44.6 million from 9,299 screens topping the international box office as well as opening at No. 1 in over 15 markets. The following weekend, it added 23 more markets and grossed an estimated $57.5 million from 77 markets from 12,859 screens. Its opening weekends in South Korea ($12.5 million), the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta ($10.2 million), Russia and the CIS ($7.4 million), France ($6.9 million), Australia ($4.5 million) and Germany ($4.3 million; behind '' Inside Out'') represented its largest takings. In terms of total earnings, the United Kingdom ($35.3 million), South Korea ($33.6 million), Australia ($16.57 million) and Germany ($16 million) are the top markets. In South Korea, it became Fox's third-highest-grossing film ever behind ''
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'' (2009) and '' Kingsman: The Secret Service'' (2015). It topped the box office outside of North America for two consecutive weekends before being overtaken by ''
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'' in its third weekend but returned to the top in its fourth weekend. In its fifth weekend, it was surpassed by ''Spectre'' thereby topping the international box office for three weekends in total. ''The Martian'' opened in China on Wednesday, November 25 and earned $50 million in its five-day opening weekend from 4,848 screens of which $6.6 million came from 249 IMAX theaters. In its second weekend, it fell by 60% to $13.7 million, while in total, it grossed $95 million there. It opened in Japan on February 5, 2016 under the name ''Odyssey'', where it earned $5.2 million from 8,333 screens in its three-day opening weekend, debuting at No. 1 at the box office and helped the film push past the $600 million mark. Its Saturday and Sunday take was $4.25 million. It dropped just 19% in its second after adding $3.4 million. It has topped the box office there for four consecutive weekends and as of February 28 has grossed a total of $23.2 million. For its United States release, the film was originally scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015, but 20th Century Fox switched ''The Martian'' with ''
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'' so that the former would be its first film for all audiences in the country's fall season (September–November). On the film's 3D screenings, RealD's chief Anthony Marcoly said 3D technology was proliferating from action-packed
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films commonly released in the United States' summer season. Marcoly said the technology was being used in more immersive storytelling, citing ''The Martian'' and '' The Walk'' (released the same year) as two examples.


Home media

''The Martian'' was released on
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and DVD on January 12, 2016. It was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on February 14, 2016. An extended cut of the film adding an additional ten minutes was released on June 7, 2016.


Reception


Critical response

On the
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the film has an approval rating of , with an average rating of , based on reviews. The website's critics consensus read, "Smart, thrilling, and surprisingly funny, ''The Martian'' offers a faithful adaptation of the bestselling book that brings out the best in leading man Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott."
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, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100 based on 46 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while
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reported filmgoers gave it an average 4.5 out of 5 stars and a 66% "definite recommend". Audience demographics were 54% men and a total 59% over 35. ''The Martian'' received praise for its direction, visual effects, musical score, screenplay, scientific accuracy, and likability, largely due to Damon's performance. ''
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'' reported, "Critics are calling the film a funny, thrilling ride, and a return to form for idleyScott after ''
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'' and '' Exodus: Gods and Kings'' fell flat." According to aerospace engineer Dr.
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, commenting in ''
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considered the film to be Scott's and Damon's best and thought that it is a "straightforward and thrilling survival-and-rescue adventure, without the metaphysical and emotional trappings of '' Interstellar''".
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'', stated that the film "involves a dual journey into outer and inner space, a trip that takes you into that immensity called the universe and deep into the equally vast landscape of a single consciousness. For this accidental castaway, space is the place where he's physically marooned, but also where his mind is set free", from a film director, whose "great, persistent theme is what it means to be human". Negative reviews focused on the lack of character depth or atmosphere. Jaime N. Christley, writing in '' Slant Magazine'', commented, "It goes in for the idea of texture, tics, and human behavior, but there's no conviction, and no real push for eccentricity. ... It hardly seems interested in its characters or in any depiction of their work, settling instead for types of characters and kinds of scenes, correctly placed among the pendulum swings of Watney's dramatic journey." In ''
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stated that the actors "are treated as accessories", and that the director is "workmanlike in his approach to science, which always trumps magic in ''The Martian''—that's the point. But if we can't feel a sense of wonder at the magnitude and mystery of space, why even bother?" In ''Cinemixtape'', J. Olson commented: "Ridley Scott and company have concocted the most colossally mediocre sci-fi movie of the decade, all in pursuit of empty backslapping and a grade school level celebration of science. Not only is ''The Martian'' not in the same class as Scott's two masterpieces – ''
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'' – it's not even on the same continent." ''The Martian'' was listed on nearly two dozen critics' top ten lists for 2015.


Accolades

The film was included in many critics' Top Ten Films of 2015 lists. The film received various industry awards and nominations including 26 Best Picture, 20 Best Director (for Scott), and 19 Best Actor (for Damon) nominations at different organizations and associations. The American Film Institute selected ''The Martian'' as one of the Top Ten Films of the year. The film garnered two Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Damon. Scott was also nominated for
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. It received nine nominations from the
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, including
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,
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, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Visual Effects. The film was nominated for seven
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, including
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, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. ''The Martian'' was named Film of the Year by
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also winning
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, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ranked at position eight, it won the Top Ten Films of the year award at
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. It received eight nominations from Satellite Awards including
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,
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, Best Actor – Motion Picture, Best Screenplay – Adapted, and Best Visual Effects. ''The Martian'' was named one of the best films of 2015 by over 50 critics and publications and was ranked seventh on
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and thirteenth on
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's best scored film of 2015. David Hynes of
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ranked the script seventh in his list of the "10 Best Movie Screenplays Since 2010", writing, "Goddard injects some much-needed humour into the story, asking not so much how would somebody survive on Mars but how would somebody live?" ''Solanum watneyi'', a species of
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from Australia, has been named after the character of Mark Watney, to honor the fictional heroic botanist portrayal. It is a member of the same genus as the potato, ''
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''.


Scientific accuracy

When Weir wrote the novel ''The Martian'', he strove to present the science correctly and used reader feedback to get it right. When Scott began directing the film, he also sought to make it realistic and received help from James L. Green, the Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA's
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. Green put together teams to answer scientific questions that Scott asked. Green said, "''The Martian'' is reasonably realistic," though he said the film's hazardous dust storm, despite reaching speeds of would in reality have weak force. Green also found the NASA buildings in the film to be more stylish than the functional ones NASA actually uses. Film critics picked up the point that the Martian winds could amount to "barely a light breeze" in their reviews, and screenwriter Goddard agreed the winds had to be considerably exaggerated in order to set up the situation that sets the story in motion. The process used by the character Watney to produce water was accurate and is being used by NASA for a planned Martian rover. The
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was also appropriately used for heat. When his rations begin to run low, Watney builds an improvised
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using
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and the crew's feces as a fertilizer. "We could probably grow something on Mars", said Michael Shara, curator, Department of Astrophysics, Division of Physical Sciences at the
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. However
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has since been found to be
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to both plant and animal life, although it is believed that microbial organisms have the potential to live on Mars. In one scene, the glass face shield on Watney's helmet cracks; as oxygen momentarily drops below the critical level, he quickly patches the helmet with
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and avoids suffocation. According to Shara, "As long as the pressure on the inside is around 30%, you could hold it together before your eyes blow out or you had an
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." ''Time'' magazine criticized another duct tape based repair: "When a pressure leak causes an entire pod on Watney’s habitat to blow up, he patches a yawning opening in what's left of the dwelling with plastic tarp and duct tape." Such a repair might work in the reality of the actual Mars atmosphere, but is inconsistent with the reality the film has established. While Martian gravity is less than 40% of Earth's, director Scott chose not to depict the gravitational difference, finding the effort less worthwhile to put on screen than zero gravity. Scott said the heavy spacesuits would weigh the main character enough to make up for not showing the partial gravity. The
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is also cold enough that it would make Watney's initial plan to disable the rover's heater immediately impractical. The average temperature is ; it is cold enough on Mars for
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snow to fall at the poles in winter. The plot key to the eventual rescue plan is
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, a well-known practice that has been used on a number of robotic planetary exploration missions and served as a backup strategy on manned Apollo missions. It would have been one of the first approaches that everyone within NASA would have considered, but in the movie, only one JPL astrodynamicist argues for sending the Ares mission back to Mars using gravity assist rather than having a separate mission to rescue Watney. Ed Finn, director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at
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, said, "What this story does really well is imagine a near-future scenario that doesn't push too far of where we are today technically." British
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Brian Cox said, "''The Martian'' is the best advert for a career in engineering I've ever seen."


See also

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* Project Hail Mary, another science fiction novel by Andy Weir *
List of films set on Mars There is a body of films that are set on the planet Mars. In the late 19th century, people erroneously believed that there were canals on Mars. Into the early 20th century, additional observations of Mars fed people's interest in what was called " ...
** '' Robinson Crusoe on Mars'' ** '' Stranded'' *
Martian Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pr ...
*
Oxia Palus quadrangle The Oxia Palus quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Oxia Palus quadrangle is also referred to as MC-11 (Mars Chart-11). The quadrangl ...
*
Robinsonade Robinsonade () is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel ''Robinson Crusoe'' by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply ...
* Survival film


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