To say that Spider-Man: Homecoming is a great movie would, indeed, be a statement. It’d be an inaccurate statement but a statement it would remain.
MOVIES, MOVIE REVIEWS, SUPERHEROES
It starts as an interest, then you're a fan, now you're a geek.
MOVIES, MOVIE REVIEWS, SUPERHEROES
Saturday is always a monster day for Geek news coming out of SDCC. Hall H is the place to be for breaking news about upcoming movies, casting news, and brand new trailers. We already saw what WB and DC unveiled, not to be outdone, Marvel stepped up and knocked it out of the park again (can't get enough baseball cliches).
Well, here we go again. Another movie adapted from a novel by the same name. The Martian was written by Andy Weir, and was a phenomenal success. One of our very own staff members, Jenny, turned us all onto this book and we fell in love with the survival story. We rooted for Mark Watney as he fiercely struggled to survive on the red planet all on his own. Then we heard that our new favorite book was being turned into a major motion picture starring Matt Damon...and we got scared. A few months ago we were fortunate enough to speak with the author, Andy Weir and ask him how he felt about his book being turned into a film (you can listen to that interview here). He was optimistic and positive about the whole experience. I went into the theater excited. I was hopeful. I was...not let down.
The Martian is set to hit theaters on October 2nd, 2015 and stars Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Michael Peña, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Kate Mara, Donald Glover, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
In anticipation for Ridley Scott's next sci-fi film The Martian (based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, who we interviewed recently) we were given this little teaser clip introducing us to Mark Watney and the crew of the Ares 3...