“The Martian” Has Landed At The Toronto International Film Fest
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The Ridley Scott, Matt Damon 3-D space adventure premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, where critics and audiences cheered Mr. Scott’s latest venture into SiFi as a return to form for the director. “The Martian,” adapted from the best-selling Andy Weir novel, stars Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars by his crew.
The film, which 20th Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOX) will release on 2 October, is easily The blockbuster premiering at Toronto, and the festival provided the liftoff “The Martian” was looking for.
While Mr. Scott’s previous forays into space,”Alien,” ”Prometheus” have led to frightful alien life forms, “The Martian” is instead predicated on science; mathematical deductions and problem-solving guide its popcorn-with-physics entertainment.
“When you get a great script, you don’t want to bronze a Gold Medal,” Matt Damon told reporters Friday.
“The Martian” is instead a full-spirited ode to NASA, one that shares some of the same ardor for space exploration as Christopher Nolan’s “science-fact” epic “Interstellar.”
For most of the film, Mr. Damon’s scenes are entirely on his own, isolated on the red planet. He compared the experience to being “a kid in your bedroom pretending that you’re in space.”
While some reviews were less enthusiastic, Variety called it “an enthralling and rigorously realistic outer-space survival story.”
Mat Damon said “The Martian” is a joyful, thoughtful distraction for people in hard times.
“It’s a reason to put this out there for us,” said the actor. “It’s a really optimistic and hopeful movie, and sometimes our job is to put something like that out during really tough times.”
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