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Trailer Released for Matt Damon's Film, "The Martian"

posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @02:10AM   
from the Waiting-for-"The-Saturnalian" dept.

Phoenix666 wrote to inform us that Ars Technica reports:

[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.

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• Nice prop Nice prop (Score: 3, Interesting) by gman003 on Sunday June 14 2015, @02:50AM

  by gman003 (4155) on Sunday June 14 2015, @02:50AM (#195955)

  I recognize the joystick they used in the cockpit set - it's a Warthog HOTAS flight stick, a replica of the A-10's stick. The yellow stickers were a giveaway - the stick ships in two parts, the base and the stick itself, the arrows are there to make sure you don't screw it in backwards and bend the pins (it's a six-pin Mini-DIN joining the two, the little grey disk under the main stick is where it screws together). It's pretty pricey for just a regular joe but Hollywood can afford to drop $500 on a simple prop (or rather, $1000 - they used two sticks, instead of the stick+throttle combo you normally get.

  And yes, I have used mine for both Kerbal and Orbiter, so it's definitely at least plausible as a spacecraft control system, although I think I'd prefer the throttle panel to a second stick.

  Anyways, I haven't read the book but both it and the movie seem pretty interesting. I'll have to check at least one of them out.

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• Who is Matt Damon? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:04AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:04AM (#195962)

  Who is Matt Damon?   

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