Other elements that benefit from the movie treatment are the machinations, collaboration and debate by people within NASA. Where in the book Watney fills up the audience's view, because readers are only seeing his words, in the movie Watney is almost always shown at his proper scale in comparison to the vast, isolated planet. In the book, Mars reaches out and periodically makes itself known - producing the particular conditions that challenge Watney during his journey - but Mars' constant, giant emptiness fierce weather and looming landscapes are much more present in the visual medium.
(Some of the book's best lines made their way into the movie, and even into the trailers, which I considered a good sign.) Those logs, which are essentially a dialogue with the audience, go a long way toward keeping the tight focus on one isolated man interesting in both book and film.īut in the movie, Watney shares the screen with another, inescapable character: the Red Planet itself.
In the movie, the logs become video recordings, but they keep the same tone as the written logs in the book, full of humor and quips despite the dire circumstances. The heart of the novel, and of the new movie, is Watney's log entries, in which he describes the projects he undertakes and conveys his thoughts as he endures his time on the Red Planet. (In fact, the two deals were struck within a week of each other.) In 2014, Crown Publishing released a physical book, and just a year later, 20th Century Fox is releasing a movie.
Weir's novel about an astronaut's fight to stay alive alone on Mars started as a series of chapters posted one by one on his website before he self-published the whole sequence in 2011. Then again, having it easier than book-Watney leaves plenty of room for death-defying exploits, and "The Martian" movie still manages to capture the feel of the book, while making the characters within NASA more vivid and focusing even more on what makes space travel ompelling. But there are a lot of major problems presented in the book that movie-Watney doesn't encounter while stranded on Mars, and several complicated, clever solutions he never has to devise. Sure, almost everything he does goes sideways and presents a new challenge for him to ponder, calculate and build his way out of. When watching "The Martian," all I could think was that the movie version of protagonist Mark Watney had it easy. The movie " The Martian," is based on Andy Weir's book of the same name, and tells the story of an astronaut who is accidentally left behind on Mars and must struggle to survive. The new movie, opening Friday, trades some of the book's nonstop danger for glorious Martian vistas and more NASA at work, and I'm not complaining.Īs a quick note, this article doesn't spoil major plot points but does discuss the major themes of the book and movie. The Martian scores a 8.0 digit binge rating out of 10 and is a brilliant movie to watch in the Drama, Adventure and Sci-Fi genres.Movies adapted from successful books don't always capture the magic of the original text - and the calculation- and science-heavy story of "The Martian" seems a particularly tough customer - but the upcoming film does a surprisingly good job conjuring the book's spirit. You can watch the movie online on Hotstar, as long as you are a subscriber to the video streaming OTT platform. Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Nick Mohammed, Chen Shu, Eddy Ko, Enzo Cilenti, Jonathan Aris, Gruffudd Glyn, Naomi Scott, Geoffrey Thomas, Yang Haiwen, Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan, Brian Caspe, Szonja Oroszlán, Mark O'Neal, Karen Gagnon, Lili Bordán, Nikolett Barabas, Dilyana Bouklieva, Björn Freiberg, James Fred Harkins Jr., Sam Spruell, Matt Devere, Mike Kelly, Greg De Cuir, Peter Linka, Declan Hannigan, Peter Schueller, Waleska Latorre, Frederik Pleitgen, Charlie Gardner, Nóra Lili Hörich, Kamilla Fátyol, Yang Liu, Richard Rifkin, Nicholas Wittman, Ben O'Brien, Scott Alexander Young, Jason Ryan, James Dougherty, Xue Xuxing, Balázs Medveczky and Dora Endre are playing as the star cast in this movie. This movie is 2 hr 24 min in duration and is available in English language. The Martian was released on and was directed by Ridley Scott.