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Since the filming of the film has just started, the first wave of publicity focused on the original novel. Matthew successfully ran a series of successful adaptations of the two novels "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games", and summed up a lot of them. Experience, such as people who have read the original book, are more likely to buy a ticket to go to the theater to watch a movie.

Whether or not these people think the film adaptation is destroying the original, more than 95 percent of them will contribute to the film's box office.

In addition, book fans have a higher proportion of large-scale consumption on peripherals.

Just like Warner Bros. does with the Harry Potter series, creating more readers before the film is released will undoubtedly be extremely beneficial for future films.

On the media and websites in North America, a wide range of promotional articles about the original novel appeared.

"A counterattack for a 99-cent novel - The Martian!"

After a title like this appeared in the media, it attracted the attention of many people. Stories and reports such as Diaosi's counterattack are also the most popular topics for the media and the public.

The original author Andy Weir was also portrayed as a tragic figure.

"Andy Weir, the author of the original novel of "The Martian", also has the same tough temperament as the hero played by Matthew Horner. Andy Weir started writing a few years ago about an astronaut who is stranded. The story of being on a red planet and doing a lot of research on the planet. He spent three years writing this story, posting the latest content of the novel on the website every few weeks, offering readers to follow the main character of the novel for free Mark Watney's chance."

"After gaining a small following of the novel, at the request of readers, he decided to make the novel into an e-book form. Later, a fan suggested that he put the novel on Amazon.com, and he did just that. , for 99 cents on Amazon for readers to buy and read.”

At the same time, Matthew was also interviewed by the crew to cheer on Andy Weir.

"When I first saw this novel, I sat down and thought, I might just read twenty or thirty pages at random to see how it feels, after all, the book didn't even have a paper version at the time, and no one wanted to. Published, but it turned out that I read the entire book in one sitting, and I was completely blown away by it, it was love at first sight!"

As the video of Matthew's interview went viral on the Internet and on TV, the book "The Martian" instantly became famous, and too many people wanted to see for themselves what the novel that Matthew so praised was like.

The quality of this science fiction novel is guaranteed, and it was highly recommended by Matthew. Coupled with a certain scale of publicity, it has just entered the second half of June, and it has reached the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list and has become Amazon Electronics. Number one book seller!

Subsequently, a large number of reporters from North America flocked to Dalby, a small town in Australia, to visit the crew and interview, and the name of "The Martian" also spread.

As the only actor currently filming, Matthew also accepted a joint interview with reporters after filming.

The production budget of this film is as high as 120 million US dollars. Although this production cost is not a lot for films of similar themes and specifications, it all comes from the investment of the No. 13 studio.

As an investor, Matthew naturally spares no effort in publicity and promotion.

"When I read the script, I was most worried or afraid of being alone there alone."

In the face of many reporters, Matthew also said a lot of material that can be used for hype, "Actually, I have very good actors and very good friends around my life. In this movie, I need to be alone on Mars, That was the biggest challenge for me, and even the biggest challenge of being in this movie was to have only one person, no friends. But I'm relieved to have a director as good as Ridley."

In addition, Walt Disney's subsidiary Disney Pictures and Bowei International specially sent people to communicate with Matthew. The main discussion was the release schedule of "The Martian". Initially, Disney planned to release the film on the Thanksgiving schedule next year. In order to give the crew enough production time.

But Ridley-Scott said he didn't need that much time, and that The Martian could finish all post-production by March next year at the latest.

In this way, the advance of the schedule is inevitable.

Therefore, Disney decided to advance the film to the summer release. Since "Iron Man 3" began to draw in the summer of 2013, the independent file known as the Matthew Horner period was announced to be occupied by "Fast and Furious 6". "The Martian" was put in June by Disney.

This decision will inevitably compress the production cycle of the film, but because director Riley Scott and his production team are very familiar with the production experience of science fiction films, the crew is not worried at all.

Another point, Matthew and Disney think this will be a real mass film, even people who don't understand scientific principles, can easily understand or like this film.

As for the importance of audience positioning, anyone who knows the film industry knows how important it is. "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" are both examples of successful audience positioning.

Compared with these two series, the theme of "The Martian" is not clearly divided into audience groups, because the original settings of the novel are not very brain-burning or very sci-fi settings, but more: humor, human nature, science This setting, and the feelings conveyed by the novel are very hopeful and passionate, which is very infectious.

That is to say, from 8 or 9-year-old children with space dreams to white-collar workers who work in office buildings every day, they may like this movie.

This also determines that the film must control the size of the picture. Many large-scale scenes in the original book are useless when adapting, and a few occasionally used, such as Mark Watney's paragraphs dealing with wounds, will be included in the public version as much as possible.

Although the specific scenes of Matthew's wound healing were designed, for the sake of classification, these scenes can only appear in the DVD version.

There was a lot of publicity from the outside world, but Matthew did not ignore his regular work. First of all, he had to play the role of Mark Watney.

In the studio, a piece of land has been repaired. Matthew came over with two buckets, squatted on the ground and looked at it, took off the shovel around his waist, dug a small hole, and roughly gestured the depth, a little bit of satisfaction. head, stood up, took out the packaging from a bucket, and glanced at it.

"Grass...are you...?, Mars!" He scolded, picked up scissors and cut open the package, as if being smoked by the stench, and immediately turned his face away, "Damn, this is really terrifying!"

He squeezed the Baba inside into another bucket containing Martian soil and Earth soil. It seemed that he could no longer bear the smell, turned his head and coughed.

"No, this won't work." Matthew continued to say to himself, "I'm going to be smoked to death before the gold carat is made."

Stopping the work at hand for a while, he found some paper, rolled it into two **** and stuffed it into his nose, took out a package and cut it open again. This time there was no smell, and he said quite contentedly, "Scented tissue, NASA Exclusively, I finally found something NASA deserves credit for.”

He squeezed out the cake again, as if he was addicted, "I'm breathing through my mouth now, and I can't smell the stench through my nose, but the stench still entered my body through my mouth. This..."

Having said that, Matthew threw away Jinkara, turned his head and started retching. It took a while to recover, and he frowned and said, "Fortunately, I didn't eat."

He said to himself, "If I don't work, I'll really have nothing to eat in the future."

Then, Matthew glanced at the gold carat in the bucket, "What if I can't grow potatoes? Could it be that eating these... oh, it's horrible, I will be decomposed by microorganisms."

Matthew shook his head quickly. After finishing the remaining bags, he took an iron pipe and stirred it vigorously in the bucket containing soil and cakes to make the Mars brand farmhouse Jinkra, which is necessary for growing potatoes.

"After I go back, I must apply for a patent." Matthew said while stirring the gold carat that was being formed, "No one wants to know the formula, this is an independent patent, the rarest is not the mixture of Martian soil and Earth soil, but Made exclusively by Mark Watney."

Seeing that it was almost done, Matthew stopped stirring, took out the iron pipe and put it aside, and said, "This **** stirrer is very memorable. When I return to Earth, I will keep it for special collection~www.readwn.com~ Xiu crouched down again, took the small shovel, shoveled out a small ball of gold carat, and placed it in the small hole dug just now.

"The fertilizer rich in microorganisms is finally here!" There was a hint of relief in Matthew's disgusted expression.

Planting potatoes on Mars is obviously the most critical part of the hero's survival journey, and the botanist, a setting that has been marginalized in space science fiction works in the past, is also the protagonist.

This scene design has also been recognized by NASA professionals.

The astronaut's room is isolated from the external atmospheric environment and radiation, providing constant air pressure, temperature and light. The machine and greenhouse transformed by the hero solves the problem of water sources. However, under soil cultivation conditions, nutrients and minerals that can be absorbed by plants are still necessary. substance.

Fortunately, the soils of Mars and Earth are only slightly different in mineral composition. According to the soil composition data returned by the Curiosity rover, its mineral content is very similar to that of Earth's volcanic ash samples. Although barren, it is available after all.

However, there are more important things in the soil on the earth - microorganisms. Many minerals need to be decomposed by bacteria or fungi before they can be absorbed as nutritious plants. Therefore, when the actor is making the Mars version of the farmhouse Jinkra, in addition to making everyone laugh and put nitrogen In addition to mixing phosphorus and potassium into the Martian soil, a more important step is to mix the earth soil samples containing microbial samples into it, so that the Martian soil is also "active".

The shooting went smoothly, and this long shot went through in one go.

It was also the last shot Matthew shot in June before returning to North America to prepare for the upcoming "Special Forces 2."

His role is basically separated from that of the other actors, and even if he is not on the crew, it will not affect Ridley-Scott's filming of other actors' plays.

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