This story originally appeared in the Actors/Directors/Writers issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
Over the course of nearly 40 years and 23 films, Ridley Scott has been to space (“Alien”), made suspenseful movies (“Black Hawk Down”), mounted large-scale epics (“Gladiator”), found humor in drama (“Thelma & Louise”) and done elaborate special effects (“Exodus: Gods and Kings”). He does all of that at once in “The Martian,” his adaptation of the Andy Weir novel about an astronaut marooned on the red planet.
The film, starring Matt Damon as the astronaut, Jessica Chastain, Michael Peña and Kate Mara as some of his crewmates, and Jeff