Andy Weir

Like, Mark Watney doesn't, like, learn a ton about himself.

I mean, he does.

He's confronted with, like, surviving by himself.

Yeah.

But Mark Watney was always, like, a smart guy and a heroic guy, right?

What we learn about Rylan Grace and, like, who he actually was by the end of this movie and then what the decisions he makes, that we love a character on an arc stuff is much more impactful to me.

And then I think also...

I strongly believe, and I alluded to this on the Martian podcast perhaps too much, but, like, that Damon's great in the Martian, but Gosling is such a better fit for... Mm-hmm.

Andy Weir's humor, Drew Goddard's humor, and then Guy rattling around alone in space or Guy with a little, a little guy with him in space, you know, like Gosling and, and, and, you know, not to underestimate the contributions of Lord and Miller because there's a lot of, there's, there's the guardrails of the book.

It's a very faithful adaptation, even though it's like missing a bunch.

It's a very faithful adaptation.

There's the guardrails that Drew Goddard put in place of like how to adapt an Andy Weir novel.

And then there's like Lord and Miller's

for improvisation.

Yes.

Which is true in all of their projects.

You know, Spider-Verse, they talked about, like, not really even having scripts sometimes and just, like, Lord of Miller would just, like, slap post-its in the sound booth in front of people and be like, try it this way, try it this way, try it this way to find the right one.

In all of the descriptions of how they made this movie, there's just all of, like, Drew Goddard would write a joke and then he would say, like, and then they'd spend 45 minutes just, like, trying different versions of it.

You know, so that, like, improvisation

No bad ideas in a brainstorm.