[Ed note: Caution - spoilers!]
The teaser takes the form of an in-universe "video diary" showing Watney and the rest of the crew of the fictional Ares 3 mission preparing to leave for their trip to Mars on the spacecraft Hermes. Somewhat presciently, it starts out with Watney briefly struggling to set up a video camera—something he’ll likely be doing with great regularity once he finds himself marooned on Mars.
After a brief introduction, Watney introduces the other members of the Ares 3 mission, including mission commander Lewis (played by Jessica Chastain, who along with Damon recently starred in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar). The video is overlaid with pop-up factoids and Twitter-like interjections and trending topics from the public, some of which contain nods to other works of science fiction (when German astronaut Vogel first appears, played by Norwegian Aksel Hennie, one tweet asks "Vogel has to be the #synthetic right"—a reference to Ridley Scott’s Alien).
We've been fortunate to have a couple of decent Sci-Fi movies like Gravity and Interstellar the last couple years. Let's hope this follows in those footsteps.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:01AM
Who is Matt Damon?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:03AM
Fuck if I know. Didn't he play Spock in that Star Trek remake nobody gave a fuck about?
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:29AM
Who, indeed.
https://youtu.be/BUa5oHgYV2k [youtu.be]
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:34AM
I don't get it. Why did you link to a video of Winston Churchill?
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Sunday June 14 2015, @04:33AM
Isn't he the little guy that sorts hot molecules from cold ones?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 14 2015, @11:59AM
Wait, he's taking my job? ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Sunday June 14 2015, @05:50AM
Matt Damon.
Who is Matt Damon?
Matt Damon! [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:06PM
He's that puppet in "Team America"
Matt...Damon...
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @03:35PM
Who is Matt Damon?
It's the automated subroutine that throws up the "Welcome!" screen after you've logged into Windows 7.
Oh, wait... that's Doormat Daemon. Sorry!