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No other film in the race had a longer gestation.
He eschewed CG for practical effects whenever possible, upping the budget and the risk.
It didnt feel like everybody was going to set every day, he says.
It felt like we were going into the wasteland: real vehicles with real assailants after you.
And now, real acclaim.
Neither Josh nor I are journalists, McCarthy says.
And in any industry, theres a certain culture, certain politics, the inside-baseball chatter of it all.
We wanted to get that right.
That to me is the greatest accomplishment of the movie.
He finds himself alone on the Red Planet without enough food to survive until another ship might reach him.
Its very optimistic, says Damon.
If he panics, hed be dead, Scott says.
The optimism is fun.
Great fun, actually.
When a director of that caliber asks you to go on a journey like this, you jump.
The bear, for the record, is completely digital, but youd never know it.
It was in my bones to tell this story, he says.
Were still here, he says.
Integrity is a tricky commodity in a story packed with spies, diplomats, and politicians.
Theyre all performing, Spielberg says.
Its very, very hard to know what people really believe, because everybody has an agenda.
Everybody has something they dont want to tell us.
Youre just supposed to be along for the ride.
I approached the book with trepidation, Abrahamson says.
For Crowley, the antidote was to lock into the characters quietest moments.
They were the essence of the film for me, he says.
You look back at it and think, God, thats so great.
