Work · Film · 2015

The Martian

Ridley Scott, director · Drew Goddard, screenwriter · Andy Weir, novelist

Studio: 20th Century Fox / Scott Free Productions
Units: 1 film, two released cuts (Theatrical; Extended Edition)
imdb: tt3659388

Ridley Scott's adaptation follows Mark Watney's survival on Mars and NASA's effort to bring him home, expanding Mindy Park's on-screen role and closing on an Earth-set epilogue the novel does not have.

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Novel 2011 (self-published serial/ebook); 2014 (Crown Publishing Group print edition) → Film 2015 · Direct adaptationThe MartianGoddard and Scott keep the science-first optimism and nearly every setback, cut the book's late solo ordeal, and invent an Earth epilogue the novel never wrote.83composite · editorial

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