{"id":2648,"date":"2015-06-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:30:00","slug":"watch-matt-damon-is-like-macgyver-on-mars-in-first-trailer-for-the-martian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/watch-matt-damon-is-like-macgyver-on-mars-in-first-trailer-for-the-martian\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Matt Damon Is Like MacGyver on Mars in First Trailer for &#039;The Martian&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-martian-movie-trailer\/18612?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Erik Davis<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-martian-movie-trailer\/18612?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201506\/themartian.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re liking this trend where Hollywood is delivering a new space epic every fall. Just in the last three years we had <em>Gravity<\/em>, <em>Interstellar<\/em> and now Ridley Scott&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/martian\/m70750\"><strong><em>The Martian<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, based on the super-nerdy book about an astronaut (Matt Damon) who becomes stranded on Mars after his crew leaves believing he&#8217;s already dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The film hits theaters on November 25, and here&#8217;s the first trailer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>At around three minutes in length, this first look at <em>The Martian<\/em> presents a different kind of space-rescue story, told from two different vantage points: the astronaut stranded on Mars, using science to extend his life long enough to be rescued, and his crew who disregard NASA&#8217;s instructions in order to pull off one helluva dangerous rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p>The film comes stacked with a fantastic ensemble cast, with Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Sean Bean and Donald Glover all in the mix. And if there&#8217;s any director we want taking us to outer space, it&#8217;s Ridley Scott (<em>Alien, Prometheus, Blade Runner<\/em>), who knows a thing or two about delivering memorable sci-fi movies.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna science the sh*t out of this&#8221; is already one of our favorite lines of 2015. Bring on <em>The Martian<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-martian-movie-trailer\/18612?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Watch: Matt Damon Is Like MacGyver on Mars in First Trailer for &#039;The Martian&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-martian-movie-trailer\/18612?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-martian-movie-trailer\/18612?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201506\/themartian.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re liking this trend where Hollywood is delivering a new space epic every fall. Just in the last three years we had <em>Gravity<\/em>, <em>Interstellar<\/em> and now Ridley Scott&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/martian\/m70750\"><strong><em>The Martian<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, based on the super-nerdy book about an astronaut (Matt Damon) who becomes stranded on Mars after his crew leaves believing he&#8217;s already dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The film hits theaters on November 25, and here&#8217;s the first trailer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>At around three minutes in length, this first look at <em>The Martian<\/em> presents a different kind of space-rescue story, told from two different vantage points: the astronaut stranded on Mars, using science to extend his life long enough to be rescued, and his crew who disregard NASA&#8217;s instructions in order to pull off one helluva dangerous rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p>The film comes stacked with a fantastic ensemble cast, with Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Sean Bean and Donald Glover all in the mix. And if there&#8217;s any director we want taking us to outer space, it&#8217;s Ridley Scott (<em>Alien, Prometheus, Blade Runner<\/em>), who knows a thing or two about delivering memorable sci-fi movies.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna science the sh*t out of this&#8221; is already one of our favorite lines of 2015. Bring on <em>The Martian<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}