00:00I was given the manuscript for this by Andy Weir to both be in it and to produce, but I
00:09was given it at, I mean, really, that's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
00:14I loved The Martian, but I just, nothing could prepare me for this journey I was about to go on
00:21and just how incredible this book is, and it's so fun now because this book is so beloved by so
00:27many people, they're so fiercely protective of it.
00:30It's never worked on something where I'm so confident that the story and the characters are great and that the
00:36audience is going to love it because it's already been stress-tested by the audience of book readers, and it's
00:43so beloved, so it's really, I just knew if we could stay true to the book that we would make
00:48a great film.
00:49There's so much about this book that made me want to make it into a film. It's such an epic
00:53journey. It's a journey that you, only through the experience of this film, it's an experience you will never have,
01:00probably, unless with this book or with this film.
01:03I mean, the idea that you start on Earth and you go to another galaxy and you make friends with
01:09an alien and you save the world is just too fun to pass up, and on top of it, there
01:15just were so many incredible layers to it and just really hopeful.
01:19I mean, even though it is about the sun dying, it's hopeful in the sense that it supports this idea
01:25and believes in this idea that we're capable of anything, no matter how bleak it seems, that as long as
01:33you don't give up hope, that really anything is possible and miracles are possible.
01:38I don't think Charlie Wood, our production designer, ever really accepted that this was just pretend. These sets were so
01:45realistic, it was a problem. They were too real.
01:48I think he was just wanted to be prepared in case at some point we said, actually, Charlie, we need
01:52to go to space for a few shots, that he would be like, yeah, we, I already, I got this,
01:57you're covered.
01:58The spaces were so realistic and the way that the sets moved was so realistic. Just the engineering of them
02:05was genius.
02:06Not like a set in the sense that like if you needed to move the camera, we needed to get
02:10wires in because I needed to float.
02:12Nothing moved. Like you had to saw the set in half and then weld it back together.
02:18It was just so incredibly realistic that it really set a bar for all of us when we got to
02:22the sets where we thought, okay, we have to commit to this film and to our respective roles as, as
02:29much, with as much creativity and as seriously as Charlie Wood committed to these locations.
02:35I think it's sort of like this really like awe-inspiring, hopeful, kind of life-affirming experience that some movies
02:43can give you.
02:44I think the film and, and we know that the book delivers on that. The book is so beloved by
02:50so many.
02:51The fans of the book are so focused on how we handle this material.
02:56They're cautiously optimistic because they want it to work, but they love these characters so much that it's like a
03:02very special book in that way.
03:03Very, this, a lot of people describe this as the best book they've ever read and are very emotional about
03:10the fact that it's being made into a film.
03:12So I feel a lot of responsibility to them, but I also feel really encouraged because I, I just, we
03:17did stay very close to the spirit of the book and the details of the book.
03:20And, uh, having seen the film with a lot of audiences now, I just know that, I know that people
03:25will love these characters and, and love this once in a lifetime journey that they get to go on.
03:30You know, the movie is, it's epic. So the only way to really experience the epic nature of it, uh,
03:36and the scale of it and the scope of it is on a big screen.
03:39I mean, it's, it's about the cosmos. It's the beauty of it is that, that if you have that experience,
03:46you know, you're, you experience the cosmos in this by the, probably the most, that's as close as most of
03:51us will ever get.
03:52I just think that it's so hard to grasp our place in the universe. And it's so easy to, to
03:59just shut down to the idea. And, and, you know, occasionally you get these images like the pale blue dot
04:05from Sagan, or you get, uh, you know, images from the ISS where you're reminded of it, but it's so
04:13easy to forget. And it's such a powerful experience.
04:15We had, uh, some real astronauts on set and they came during this, one of the scenes that I'm referencing
04:21where I'm just kind of going tail over tea kettle, bumping into things like just, it was, it was very
04:27ridiculous, but it felt like it might be truthful.
04:30And I was a little bit cautious to see what they would think of it. And they were like, it's
04:35kind of what it's like that it it's often presented in this very elegant way, but oftentimes they were saying
04:42you get so many bumps and bruises because you just forget.
04:44And you're all over the place and there is no up and down. And in reality, it's not, it's not
04:49like a ballet at all.
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