Watch Matt Damon get lost in space in the chilling first trailer for The Martian
Being stranded anywhere is a pretty terrifying proposition — but being stranded alone in space, 140,000,000 miles away from Earth, is about as bad as it gets. Ridley Scott's The Martian , based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel of the same name, follows Matt Damon as a shipwrecked astronaut on Mars after a mission gone wrong:
The Martian hits theaters in November.
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