A new trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Martian was released by 20th Century Fox this morning, giving us plenty of ideas about how NASA could possibly rescue Matt Damon when he’s stuck on Mars.
Damon starts out as a member of a crew that heads to Mars, but an accident leaves him stranded alone on the Red Planet. To the shock of everyone back home, he survives and manages to grow his own food on Mars. However, he doesn’t know if his messages actually reach NASA. When they do, his crew decides to go back, even though NASA doesn’t want them to.
Aside from Damon, the rest of the cast includes Jessica Chastain (another Interstellar vet), Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Sebastian Stan, Mackenzie Davis and Michael Pena.
The film was written by Drew Goddard (Daredevil) and is based on Any Weir’s book. It is scheduled for Oct. 2. (That’s the same weekend that Warner Bros.’ Gravity opened two years ago and ox is hoping that its film will be just as successful.)
screenshot from Fox YouTube video