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| Title: | The Martian |
| Director: | Ridley Scott |
| Writers: | Drew Goddard |
| Producers: | Mark Huffam; Simon Kinberg; Michael Schaefer; Ridley Scott; Aditya Sood |
| Composer: | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography: | Dariusz Wolski |
| Editors: | Pietro Scalia |
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| Distributed by: | Kinberg Genre Scott Free Productions Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
| Released: | October 2nd, 2015 |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
| Running time: | 144 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $108,000,000 [1] |
| Gross: | $198,507,516 (US) [2] $460,502,907 (Worldwide) [2] |
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The Martian is an American feature film of the planetary exploration subgenre. It was directed by Ridley Scott with a screenplay written by Drew Goddard, based on the novel The Martian written by Andy Weir. The film was produced by Ridley Scott's studio, Scott Free Productions and distributed through Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. It premiered theatrically in the United States on October 2nd, 2015. The film stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who takes an ill-fated manned mission to the planet Mars, only to get left behind. Sucks to be him. Through wit and guile, he manages to eke out a life for himself on the Red Planet, while struggling to find a way to contact people back on Earth.
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Notes & Trivia[]
- The Martian, The Martian (2015) and Martian, The (2015) all redirect to this page.
- The tagline for this film is, "Bring Him Home".
- Production on The Martian began on March 10th, 2014. Principal photography concluded on August 13th, 2014. [1]
- The Martian was released in 3-D and IMAX 3-D.
- At its widest release in the United States, the Martian was screened in 3,854 theaters. It had remained in release for 5.7 weeks (40 days). [2]
- This is Ridley Scott's fourth science fiction film as a director. He is also known for directing Alien in 1979, Blade Runner in 1982, and Prometheus in 2012.
- Screenplay writer Drew Goddard is also an executive producer on the Daredvil streaming series on Netflix.
- Simon Kinberg is also known for producing X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class.
- Ridley Scott also used Dariusz Wolski as his director of photography while shooting Prometheus.
- Pietro Scalia was also an editor on Prometheus and Amazing Spider-Man, both of which were released in 2012.
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External Links[]
- The Martian at IMDB
- The Martian at Metacritic
- The Martian at Wikipedia
- The Martian at Themoviedb.org
- The Martian at Rotten Tomatoes
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IMDB; The Martian (2015); Box office & business.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Box Office Mojo; The Martian (2015); Total lifetime grosses/Domestic summary.