Prima di accettare la parte che Ridley Scott gli offriva, come protagonista del film The Martian, Mat Damon ha avuto qualche dubbio.
Veniva da Interstellar, dove recitava il ruolo di un astronauta dimenticato su un pianeta lontano e in The Martian il suo ruolo aveva le stesse premesse.
Ridley Scott l’ha convinto subito: “I went in to meet [Ridley Scott], then I signed on really quickly. I went in and I said, I really love this script, but my only hesitation is I’ve just done ‘Interstellar’, in which I played a dude stranded on a planet, it might be weird if, after taking a year and a half off, I played another dude stranded on a planet. I explained ‘Interstellar’ to him, and he said ‘The movies are totally f***ing different, this is going to be f***ing fun. Let’s do this!’ He was so infectious, I couldn’t really say no to him.”
Scritto da Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, Quella casa nel bosco, World War Z ) il film di Scott è molto differente, secondo quanto riferito dallo stesso Damon: “One of the biggest differences is it’s primarily me on my own for a lot of it. That’s the big challenge. It has all the bells and whistles of NASA and the b-side of the story, the rest of the world trying to get this guy back. But the other half of the movie is me and Ridley on Mars, so that part’s different. You start there, there’s that mystery-what happened, how did he get left there? The mission part is the b-side, trying to figure out how to get back. So, structurally it’s different to [anything] that’s ever been done.”
La Fox lo lancerà il 2 ottobre negli States.
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