9 tripped-out sci-fi technologies in ‘The Martian’ that NASA really uses

Now the popular Red Planet has another visitor in the new movie, “The Martian”, actor Matt Damon. “So I just said, ‘No.’ Ben was like, ‘I gotta do it.’ And the movie ended up doing very well, even though I don’t think Ben was ultimately very proud of it”.

Scott has previously directed acclaimed films including Blade Runner and Gladiator. Variety called it “enthralling and rigorously realistic”, and Vanity Fair declared: “It’s time to start talking about Matt Damon‘s next Oscar”. The Wrap wrote, “it’s hard to deny filmmaking this adept and this thrilling”. The story turns on astronaut Mark Watney (Damon), who is lost in a windstorm, assumed dead and left behind when his crewmates have to get out of Dodge before the same tornado wallops them.

Sure, you can quibble about the movie’s Martian meteorology: The author of the book on which the movie was based, Andy Weir, acknowledges that he whipped up a fictional windstorm as a “deliberate concession for dramatic purposes”.

“It won’t be in the next one”, Scott told German website FilmFutter. “Ridley’s like 5 feet away the whole time”, Damon says. And by fudging just a tad of the science (mostly by glossing over the most intense of Watney’s many calculations), the film earns itself mass appeal. Today’s America squints at where it wants to go, gripes about the length of the walk and the cost of the shoes, then slumps off to see a good Mars movie instead. Movies are either superhero-size or tiny. The 2013 HBO hit, in which Michael Douglas and Damon star as Liberace and his longtime partner Scott Thorson, was adored by critics. The notion that we are more than helpless specks, and that we can even win a fight in outer space, was part of what drew Damon to the project.

“It’s disgusting”, Damon said wearily. “I attribute a lot of it to luck”, he says. Like why didn’t you fund it? I think the key to human kind’s future in space is reducing the cost of putting stuff into orbit.

As always, let me now double back for a quick summary of what The Martian is about, in case you’ve been ignoring this section all the previous times.

“I’m going to have to science the (expletive) out of this”, he says, in the trailer. “It’s just a brutal business”. He looks for big films that will also be good. Director Paul Greengrass also returns.

Those gym shots were handy evidence of Damon getting back to into Bourne shape.

NASA predicts that that humans would land on the red planet sometime in the 2030s’.

Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Aidan Monaghan Matt Damon portrays the hero in “The Martian“.

[What kind of person wants to live – and certainly die – on Mars?].

Araya Diaz/WireImage Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Damon has so far been the controversial figure on the show. Wait until you’ve seen a film before deciding it’s been ruined. He later released an apology. “I would just ask everybody to get past that, because there are so many things they got right”. He also added: “So things get blown, but it’s not with the same intensity”.

His inspiration was Affleck, since his childhood buddy navigated a real career zenith almost decade ago when he became a gossip punchline over his relationship with then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. Together, they plan a mutiny to save their friend and colleague, but will it work? After that film, due out next summer, he’s set to star opposite Reese Witherspoon in “Downsizing”, director Alexander Payne’s social satire. “So I’m hoping we’re heading towards a positive place“. We wanted to do the anti-gangster movie. He sent me this letter and he was like, ‘Don’t glorify this guy anymore.

And so it didn’t sit well with me. “I mean, look at our political process”.

No, I’d never met him, which was odd because we’ve both been kicking around here for a while. But in terms of our own Greenlight contest, we ended up with a group of 20 finalists.