{"id":20451,"date":"2015-08-19T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=20451"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:03:45","slug":"second-martian-trailer-somehow-better-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/second-martian-trailer-somehow-better-first\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Trailer for The Martian is Somehow Better Than the First"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ridley Scott is due, apparently. After a dosage of entertaining but fatally flawed films, namely\u00a0<em>Prometheus\u00a0<\/em>in 2012 and\u00a0<em>Exodus: Gods and Kings\u00a0<\/em>in 2014, Scott is hopefully coming back strong with\u00a0<em>The Martian,<\/em> an adaptation of Andy Weir&#8217;s book of the same name. And if Scott&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t enough to get you interested, throw in Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean and, of all people, Kristen Wiig. Considering the Oscar-friendly timing of the release and the boisterous marketing push\u00a0<em>The Martian\u00a0<\/em>is privileged to receive, 20th Century Fox clearly thinks this one&#8217;s a winner. Here&#8217;s the second trailer:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ej3ioOneTy8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice a subtle shift in tone from the <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/martian-else-strand-matt-damon\/\">introductory trailer<\/a>, with a little less emphasis on Damon himself and a little more on the enormous supporting cast. That&#8217;s appropriate. Chastain brings her fiction space chops to the proceedings while Daniels, who&#8217;s graduated into the annals of\u00a0wise movie patriarchs thanks to Aaron Sorkin&#8217;s lionizing of the man in\u00a0<em>The Newsroom<\/em>, gets to look on the action with disgruntled pessimism.<\/p>\n<p>There is a universe where I also mention Kate Mara&#8217;s boon to the marketing for\u00a0<em>The Martian<\/em>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/fantastic-four-worse-movie-pixels-according-critics\/\">this isn&#8217;t it<\/a>. Sorry, Kate Mara.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most peculiar thing about\u00a0<em>The Martian\u00a0<\/em>is just how quickly the book transitioned into a movie. Andy Weir self-published his novel back in 2011, only to have it republished under the Crown Publishing (itself apart of the behemoth Random House) umbrella in 2014. Now, one year later, it&#8217;s a movie backed by all the money-making machinations of Hollywood.\u00a0This fast-track from little-known to Damonization is a pristine example of just how fast technology makes the entertainment industry move. It lets producers capitalize, literally, on the trending and the viral with alarming expediency.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only we can get a <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/martian-else-strand-matt-damon\/\">meta take on Damon&#8217;s space adventuring<\/a> will Hollywood truly steal my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridley Scott is due, apparently. After a dosage of entertaining but fatally flawed films, namely\u00a0Prometheus\u00a0in 2012 and\u00a0Exodus: Gods and Kings\u00a0in 2014, Scott is hopefully coming back strong with\u00a0The Martian, an adaptation of Andy Weir&#8217;s book of the same name. And if Scott&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t enough to get you interested, throw in Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":19442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1362,28,164],"class_list":["post-20451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-damon","tag-movies","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20458,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/20458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}