'The Martian' trivia and fun facts

At first screenwriter Drew Goddard, was going to direct the film, but decided to leave the project to take the lead in 'The Sinister Six'. Then Ridley Scott read the script and decided to leave the 'Prometheus' sequel to be the director.

Mars mission shown in the film is one of the missions that NASA is planning for the future.

The original draft of the script was aboard the NASA ship Orion when it launched. The cover is illustrated with a drawing of the character played by Matt Damon.

Actor Matt Damon, who plays Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets stuck on Mars, also played a character lost in space in the film 'Interstellar'.

'The Martian' use as soundtrack some of the most popular disco music like: 'Hot Stuff', performed by Donna Summer, 'Waterloo' by ABBA or 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor.

Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain had worked in ' Interstellar ' film that is also set in space, but for which they did not share any scenes.

Jessica Chastain went to his co-star in the film 'Interstellar', Anne Hathaway, for advice when wearing the spacesuit. She suggested that she should wear a cooling suit under.

The author of the novel on which the film is based published the story for free for the first time in his blog. At the end the readers who wished download it in Kindle format, asked him to put it on sale at Amazon, which he did by 0.99 dollars.

It is the second movie about the red planet in which the actor Jeff Daniels has participated. The first was 'My Favorite Martian'.

Wadi Rum desert, located in Jordan, was chosen as the setting for the shooting of the film for its characteristic red color.

50 pages of the script of 'The Martian' are based on material provided by NASA, which only allows filmmakers to use the agency as a reference if they take it seriously and honor the truth.