THE MARTIAN | Oct 2, 2015 | Will compete as a comedy at the Golden Globes

[Nutterbutter]

BO.com is predicting 46/172.

[Maxmoser3]

BO.com is predicting 46/172.

that's not bad.

[kowhite]

that's not bad.

That'd be amazing, like, hey, maybe paying Damon 25m wasn't fucking insane.

[zackzack]

Why pay him $25M? He is not tested in scifi genre before. Elysium is not exactly mega-successful.

Even the Bourne series doesn't get him 25. 15 or 17 maybe, 25? 

[mahnamahna]

hmm..I feel this could do 55-60/200m+ and be the biggest movie post Minions and before Specter.

This and possibly Compton are the only films (MI5 notwithstanding) that I could see making a run for $150 million+ DOM from now until Spectre. 

 

Of course, I'm not saying Fall 2015 will be bad.   I actually think we'll potentially have 6-7 Sep and Oct releases do $90 million+ DOM and 4-5 doing $100 million+ DOM. It's just that The Martian is the only one I can see breaking out that big. And this fall is looking to be one where everything does solid, but nothing does gigantic other than possibly Martian. 

[misafeco]

This year can break the curse. I can't name 3 good Hollywood movies filmed (partially) in Hungary. I remember Die Hard 5, Hercules (2014) and a bunch of other shit movies, but no good ones except Ghost Protocol (first 5 min). This year we have Spy already and The Martian's Earth scenes were also shot here.

Edited August 9, 2015 by misafeco

[Ali]

Kate Mara is in this. The movie is doomed! She's the female equivalent of Jai Courtney.

[DAR]

Just finished the book. Solid stuff should lend itself well to an adaptation

[Ethan Hunt]

Kate Mara is in this. The movie is doomed! She's the female equivalent of Jai Courtney.

She was awesome in F4

[zackzack]

Kate Mara is in this. The movie is doomed! She's the female equivalent of Jai Courtney.

 

Then the upcoming movie called Man Down, not a very auspicious title, co-starring Jai Courtney, must be the unluckiest movie ever.

 

Transcendence, 2014, opened with $10M, with 60% drop in 2nd weekend.

 

Deadfall, 2012, co-stars another box office downer Olivia Wilde, grossed $66,000

 

She has a 5-minute role, and flashes her badge to Tony Stark in Iron Man 2, and it 

is the worst Iron Man movie.

 

She is attached to F4 sequel due in 2017.

 

But she is in the awesome 1st season of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey.

Maybe she is not meant to be in big budget movie?

Edited August 8, 2015 by zackzack

[TStechnij]

She was awesome in F4

Their point was that all of the movies she has been in have flopped.

Just bought the book today! I'm pretty excited.

[TStechnij]

Let the record show, I'm not a fast reader.

But, I have read the first two third of this in one sitting. It is just a fun fucking read. I think a lot of it will lend itself well to a film adaptation. Actually, I think this will be hard to fuck up. There is a ton of juicy drama on Earth that is, at times, more exciting then the survival story. Ridley Scott is overdue for a hit and I think this might be it!

[Ozymandias]

According to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iKg0B8pGOa8Andy Weir is going down to LA in 2 weeks and hes gonna watch the film for the first time with Matt Damon being there.  He also mentions the movie has been testing really well.

[The Futurist]

This movie sounds more formulaic than a superhero film to me.

 

All the ingredients I see in the trailer, I ve seen it all in other movies.

[BadAtGender]

This movie sounds more formulaic than a superhero film to me.

 

All the ingredients I see in the trailer, I ve seen it all in other movies.

 

The plot is pretty straightforward. It's a survival story. A lot of the elements are going to be similar to other high concept survival stories: Apollo 13, Gravity, Castaway, etc.

 

The thing about it is the execution of the plot, not the plot itself. Damon's character (if he's like he is in the novel) is very, very funny, in spite of the tremendously horrible situation he's stuck in.

 

That's the thing I worry about most. Scott's recent films seem particularly devoid of humor. If you take that out, this is going to be a slog to view.

[grim22]

This movie sounds more formulaic than a superhero film to me.

 

All the ingredients I see in the trailer, I ve seen it all in other movies.

 

It is a very very formulaic story. The humor of Mark Watney while being trapped on a planet far far away is what makes the book so entertaining, hopefully that comes through in the movie as well.

[Ozymandias]

It is a very very formulaic story. The humor of Mark Watney while being trapped on a planet far far away is what makes the book so entertaining, hopefully that comes through in the movie as well.

 

And all the ways he stays alive which are 95% scientifically accurate, the book is pretty much a love letter to science.  If its executed well, it will easily stand apart from other survivalist movies.

Edited August 10, 2015 by Ozymandias

[DAR]

It's very scientific but it's never written in a way that a lay person would be lost

[Nutterbutter]

Although I admit my eyes started to glaze over after some of the very involved passages.

[Avatree]

Let the record show, I'm not a fast reader. But, I have read the first two third of this in one sitting. It is just a fun fucking read. I think a lot of it will lend itself well to a film adaptation. Actually, I think this will be hard to fuck up. There is a ton of juicy drama on Earth that is, at times, more exciting then the survival story. Ridley Scott is overdue for a hit and I think this might be it!

I've only seen the trailer but the earth stuff looks much more interesting than the Mars stuff. I can't decide whether or not to read the book. Everyone says it's great fun but I don't want to lessen the first experience of a hopefully equally fun movie.