The Martian’s Screenwriter Drew Goddard on Adapting What he Loves

The Martian began its life with a cult following on the internet, then became a bestseller and ended up as one of the biggest movies of the 2015, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Screenwriter Drew Goddard (World War Z) talks to The Credits about adapting Andy Weir’s page turner about surviving being stranded on Mars, handing over the directing reins to Scott and telling Weir it was time to quit his day job.

The Martian’s VFX Supervisor on Creating Zero Gravity Without a ‘Vomit Comet’

As The Martian continues its impressive box office run and enjoys some early Oscar buzz, The Credits talks to Richard Stammers, the film's visual effects supervisor and a frequent collaborator with Ridley Scott, about the dual challenge of recreating the Mars landscape and simulating a convincing zero gravity environment without anyone having to get in a “vomit comet”.

You've worked with Ridley Scott before on films like Prometheus?

Building Life on Mars With The Martian’s Production Designer Arthur Max

Arthur Max has worked with director Ridley Scott as the production designer on everything from Gladiator to Prometheus. He talks to The Credits about working closely with NASA to create the (largely) scientifically accurate world of The Martian and how his work, and Hollywood generally, have a surprising history of influencing America’s space agencies’ designs.

The Martian is a sci-fi movie,

With NASA’s Help, The Martian Plumbs Real Science for Thrills

As a genre, science fiction tends to lean more heavily on the fiction side of things than the science. Think Star Wars, The Matrix, and Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s latest movie The Martian, on the other hand, is an ode to the compelling nature of actual science, with both a plausible plot and realistic aesthetics.

Water Discovered on Mars, Just in Time for The Martian

The Red Planet is all the rage this week.In celebration today’s NASA announcement confirming liquid water flowing on Mars and this coming weekend’s much anticipated release by 20th Century Fox of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic, The Martian, starring Matt Damon as an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, we are offering a look back at few past film and television portrayals of the fourth rock from the Sun.

The Martian, Spotlight, Sicario, & Room Wow at TIFF

The Toronto International Film Festival is celebrating its 40th year with one of its most diverse and adventurous programming slates, from blockbusters to high-prestige, likely awards contenders to small films from directors from all parts of the globe.

Generating early buzz among the much-anticipated Hollywood films was The Martian, Ridley Scott’s adventure in space that had its world premiere at TIFF. Starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars while a dedicated ground crew (played by a cast including Jessica Chastain,

The Martian‘s New Trailer Arrives Amid Great Reviews

You had to like the odds that The Martian would be a very good film. Based on a very good book by Andy Weir, scripted by a screenwriter with major sci-fi chops in Drew Goodard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Cabin in the Woods), directed by the man who made two of the greatest sci-fi films of all time in Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner), and starring Matt Damon as marooned astronaut Mark Watney,

Matt Damon’s the “Greatest botanist on this planet” in New The Martian Trailer

As we wrote the last time 20th Century Fox released a trailer for The Martian, there’s some very real science behind sending a manned mission to the red planet. A fantastic story appeared in the April 20th issue of The New Yorker, reported by Tom Kizzia, entitled “Moving to Mars,” about a group of NASA recruits who are being studied in a massive,