Kate Mara has been offered a leading role in the upcoming Ridley Scott space opera The Martian, alongside Matt Damon.
The casting for next year’s tentative Ridley Scott sci-fi epic, The Martian, continues to heat up. Matt Damon has been attached for many moons now to play the lead in the film, but last week Jessica Chastain appeared to also be joining the cast, and now it seems that Scott would like House of Cards’ Kate Mara to join this space opera’s ensemble.
Reportedly offered a role by 20th Century Fox, it would make Damon’s co-stars increase in Scott’s staple of strong femininity by one in addition to Chastain and the purportedly also circling Kristen Wiig.
While the future for Prometheus and Blade Runner sequels continues to be mysterious, the high-concept filmmaker who first breathed true horror into the space opera with 1979’s Alien is returning to the genre again with The Martian. Adapted from Andy Weir’s popular novel (which began its circulation as an e-book) and from a script by Drew Goddard,The Martian will be the story of an astronaut whose ship crashes onto Mars, leaving him to his own devices as he figures out how to survive the uninhabitable planet, as well as how to get back home.
The Martian lands November 25, 2015.
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