Since the film has just begun to be filmed, the focus of the first wave of publicity was on the original work. Matthew successfully operated two series of successfully adapted movies, "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games", and also summarized a lot of experience. For example, those who have read the original work have a higher chance of buying tickets to enter the theater to watch movies.

Regardless of whether these people think that the movie adaptation is destroying the original work, more than 95% of them will contribute to the box office of the film.

In addition, the proportion of book fans who spend a lot of money around the surrounding area is also higher.

Just like Warner Bros. running the Harry Potter series, creating more readers before the film is released is undoubtedly extremely beneficial to future films.

There are a large number of soft articles promoting the original work on the media and websites in North America.

"A counterattack on Mars Rescue, which costs 99 cents!"

After titles like this appeared in the media, they attracted a lot of attention. Stories and reports such as Silk Counterattacks are also the favorite topics for the media and the public.

The original author Andy Will was also portrayed as a tragic character.

"Andy Will, the author of the original book "The Mars Rescue", also has a tough temperament like the male protagonist played by Matthew Horner. Andy Will began writing a story about an astronaut stranded and staying on a red planet a few years ago and conducted extensive research on the planet. He spent three years writing this story, and every few weeks the latest content posted on the website, giving readers the opportunity to follow the protagonist Mark Watney for free."

"After he was asked to make it into an e-book after he gained a follower, he decided to make it into an e-book. Later, a fan asked him to put it on the Amazon website, and he did it, put it on Amazon for 99 cents for readers to buy and read."

At the same time, Matthew was also interviewed on the crew to cheer for Andy Will.

"When I first saw this book, I sat down and thought, I might just read the twenty or thirty pages to see what it feels like. After all, this book was not even a paper version at that time, and no one was willing to publish it. But the result was that I read the whole book in one breath, and I was completely fascinated by it, and I was simply in love at first sight!"

As Matthew's interview video spread on the Internet and on TV, the book "Martian Rescue" instantly gained fame, and so many people wanted to see with their own eyes what Matthew was so praised.

The quality of this science fiction is guaranteed and strongly recommended by Matthew. With a certain scale of publicity, it topped the New York Times bestseller rankings and became the number one in Amazon's e-book sales list!

Subsequently, a large number of North American journalists flocked to Dalby, a small city in Australia, to visit the crew and interview, and the name of "Martian Rescue" was also spread.

As the only actor currently filming, Matthew also accepted joint interviews from reporters while filming.

The production budget of this film is as high as US$120 million. Although the production cost is not much for films with similar themes and specifications, it all comes from the investment of Studio No. 13.

As an investor, Matthew naturally spared no effort in promoting and promoting it.

"What I worry most about or fear most when reading the script is that I am very lonely there."

Facing many reporters, Matthew also said a lot of materials that can be used for hype. "In fact, I have very good actors and very good friends around my life. In this movie, I need to be alone on Mars, which is the biggest challenge for me. Even the biggest challenge in starring in this movie is that there is only one person and no friends. But I feel relieved to have a director as good as Ridley."

In addition, Walt Disney's Disneyland subsidiary Disney and Bowei International specially sent people to communicate with Matthew, and the negotiations were mainly about the release schedule of "Martian Rescue". At first, Disney planned to release the film on Thanksgiving next year to give the crew enough production time.

But Ridley Scott said he doesn't need so much time, and "The Mars Rescue" will be able to complete all post-production by March next year at the latest.

In this way, it is inevitable that the schedule will be advanced.

Therefore, Disney decided to release the film in the summer season ahead of schedule. Since the 2013 summer season had "Iron Man 3" started, the independent period called Matthew Horner was announced to be occupied by "Fast and Furious 6", and "Martian Rescue" was placed in June by Disney.

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

Another point is that Matthew and Disney think this will be a real popular film, and even people who don’t understand the principles of science can easily understand or like this film.

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 the audience's accurate positioning success.

Compared with these two series, the theme of "Martian Rescue" does not clearly divide the audience group, because the original setting is not very brain-burning or very science fiction setting. It is more about: humor, human nature, science, and the emotions conveyed are very hopeful and passionate, which is very infectious.

That is, from 8 or 9-year-old children who have dreams of space 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 picture scale. Many large-scale scenes in the original work are useless when adapting. Several occasionally used, such as the paragraphs in which Mark Watney treats wounds, will be mentioned as much as possible in the release version.

Although the specific scenes of Matthew treating wounds were designed, these scenes can only appear in the DVD version for grading purposes.

There was a lot of publicity from the outside world, but Matthew did not ignore his job. He must first play the role of Mark Watney.

In the studio, a piece of land had been corrected. Matthew walked over with two buckets, squatted on the ground and looked at it, took off the shovel at his waist, dug out a small hole, and roughly gestured to the depth, nodded with satisfaction, stood up and took out the packaging from a bucket, and took a look.

"Grass...you...you're it, Mars!" He cursed, picked up the scissors and cut the packaging, as if it was smelling foul. He immediately turned his face, "Damn it, this is really deadly!"

He squeezed the bastard inside into another bucket filled with Martian soil and earth soil, and seemed to be unable to bear the smell anymore. He turned his head and coughed.

"No, this won't work." Matthew continued to murmured to himself, "I'm going to be smoky before Jinkra has been made."

He stopped the work for a while, so he found some paper, rolled it into two balls and stuffed it into his nose, took out a package and cut it open again, this time he didn't smell the odor, and said with satisfaction, "The fragrance-free tissues finally made me find something that Nasa deserves to be praised."

He squeezed out his poo again, as if he was addicted to it, "I am breathing with my mouth now, and I can't smell the odor in my nose, but the odor still enters my body through my mouth, this..."

Speaking of this, Matthew threw away Jinkla, turned his head and started to retching. It took a while before he recovered, frowned and said, "Luckily I didn't eat."

He said to himself, "If you don't work, you will really have no food to eat in the future."

Then, Matthew looked at the Jinkar in the bucket and said, "What should I do if I can't plant potatoes? Can I eat these... Oh, it's so scary, I will be decomposed by microorganisms."

Matthew quickly shook his head, finished the remaining bags, took an iron pipe, stirred it hard in the bucket of soil and cakes, and made the Mars brand farmer's golden carat necessary to plant potatoes.

"I must apply for a patent after I go back." Matthew said while stirring the forming Jinkla, "No one can know the formula. This is an independent patent. The rarest is not a mixture of Mars and Earth soil, but a raw material exclusively made by Mark Watney."

Seeing that it was almost done, Matthew stopped stirring, took out the iron pipe and put it aside, and said, "This shit stirring stick is very memorable. When I return to the earth, I will collect it specifically."

Matthew squatted down again, took the small shovel, shoveled out a small ball of golden carats, and placed it in the small hole that had just been dug.

"The fertilizer rich in microorganisms is finally available!" Matthew's disgusting expression was filled with a hint of relief.

Martian potatoes are obviously the most critical part of the hero's survival journey. Botanist, a setting that has been marginalized in previous space science fiction works, has become the protagonist.

This scene design has also been recognized by professionals.

The astronaut's room isolates the outside atmosphere and radiation, providing constant air pressure and temperature and light. The machine and greenhouse transformed by the hero solve the problem of water source. However, nutrients and minerals that are still necessary for plants to absorb under soil cultivation conditions.

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

However, the soil on Earth has more important things and microorganisms. Many minerals need to be decomposed by bacteria or fungi before they can be absorbed as nutritional plants. Therefore, when the hero made the Martian version of Jincarat, in addition to making everyone laugh and mixing nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium into the Martian soil, the more important step is to mix the Earth's soil samples containing microbial samples into it, so that the Martian soil also has "active".

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

This is also the last shot of Matthew shooting in June, and will then return to North America to prepare for the upcoming Special Forces 2.
Chapter completed!