Loved it. 🙂

The book was great. The film perhaps even better.

The Martian is a 2015 American survival science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. The film is based on Andy Weir‘s 2011 novel The Martian … 

Around 20 sets were built on a sound stage in Budapest, Hungary, one of the largest in the world. Wadi Rum in Jordan was also used as a practical backdrop for filming. …

…  Damon said he and Scott were inspired by the 2003 documentary filmTouching the Void, which featured trapped mountain climbers …

 

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