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What type of film is The Martian? The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon in the lead role. The screenplay, written by Drew Goddard, was based on ...

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Happily, the 2015 film adaptation of Andy Weir’s The Martian, starring Matt Damon (pictured above) as Mark Watney, an astronaut who is accidentally abandoned on Mars, fitted the bill.

Yet its thin atmosphere, lack of a global magnetic field, and the resulting bombardment of radiation make the Martian surface an extreme and potentially lethal environment for most known life-forms.

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