He keeps meticulous video logs of his thought processes and progress on the main computer and various cameras set up throughout base camp.
But both Damon and Goddard rise to the challenge with gusto and wit, keeping Watney's personality intact as he sets his laser focus and intellect on the problem at hand. Watney rarely shares the frame with another human being, which seems like the bleakest possible scenario. Instead, The Martian does something much more unexpected.Īs adapted from Andy Weir's novel by Drew Goddard ( Cabin in the Woods), The Martian presents Watney as a fairly cocky, genuinely funny, easygoing everyman who just happens to be the only living thing on this entire planet. There's no chance Watney could have survived.Īnd when Watney wakes up in a dune, stunned and injured, he knows they were right.Īt this point, The Martian could become any number of grim, white-knuckle-tense space disaster movies, focusing on Watney's isolation and rising panic. Devastated but determined, her crew reassures her that she did the right thing. This easy, casual introduction makes it even more jarring when a sudden and terrible storm interrupts their work, forcing Commander Melissa Lewis (a steely-jawed Jessica Chastain) to make the tough call to make an emergency departure - leaving Watney behind when he gets hit by a rogue piece of equipment and disappears into the debris. If they weren't loping around in spacesuits, they could be any group of co-workers shooting the shit. We first meet Watney cracking wise on the surface of Mars with the rest of the Ares 3 crew ( Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, and Michael Peña). In the face of incredible odds, astronaut Mark Watney is an endlessly charming - and very funny - protagonist Once astronaut Mark Watney ( Matt Damon ) realizes his crew has left him for dead on Mars, he and the film keep their focus, momentum, and even a sharp sense of humor by sticking to the mission. Where Ridley Scott's seminal Alien promised a desolate and fraught space future, his new film, The Martian, finds a defiant joy in the unknown.
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