The Martian

“From The Martian, a best-selling book. Which became a best A very popular movie. A hit. A hit movie. A hit movie. A hit movie with all kinds of marquee actors in it.”

“From The Martian to Project Hail Mary, his stories are built on real physics, real constraints, and clever problem solving.”

“We learned from Mark Wattney in the movie The Martian that you you just just slap some poop in there and and put a little seed in it.”

“let's let's go straight to poop potatoes which were famously grown on the surface of mars during the movie the martian”

“so so david andy weir's first book the martian didn't involve alien life it was human life on mars so with the clever title the martian the martian was humans on mars”

“and we're featuring my interview with andy weir author of the martian book he wrote six seven years ago uh we all most of us saw the film but it has a latest book called project hail mary”

“and if the highest compliment I ever got was Andy weir who wrote the Martian he said to himself while he was writing the novel”

“Before I I tend to like personal stakes like in um The Martian, it was one guy's life.”

“The Martian, Mark Wattney, is just my personality. Just straight up me on Mars.”

“Even after The Martian was successful and in theaters, I was still working at my uh engineering job because I liked it. Anyway, um so I started working on The Martian um just because I I came up with the idea of like I was, oh, how could it, you know, you know, the mission to Mars and something goes”

“Well, at the time that I wrote The Martian, I I had a full-time job, but I also had no social life, no friends, no girlfriend.”

“because The Martian I was an excited observerance. And I I look at the movie The Martian I say like, they did a really good job with this.”

“You might know Andy as author of the science fiction novel The Martian, a story about an astronaut who gets stuck on Mars and has to figure out how to get home.”

“You know, you had this big hit with the The Martian and then you have a thing you didn't have with The Martian, which was expectations.”

“So much of what Ryland has to do in Project Hail Mary and what Mark has to do in The Martian, it is about problem-solving...”

“And I know you have talked about isolation appearing in The Martian and Project Hail Mary.”

“we did not watch The Martian, but I I had read the book already and one person read the book while we were in”

“number one is the Martian by Andy Weir that is the basis of that movie”

“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”

“I listened to uh The Martian, Andy Weir's uh the sci-fi”

“and then I'll recommend a fiction book which is the Martian which is a wonderful page Turner”

“so i'm i think exotic life will be very kind of exotic but not completely outrageous i don't know if you know the book by andy weir the the hail mary”

“okay this one's is the Martian based on a true story I'm just kidding I'm not authorized to answer that I saw that movie and I was like I guarantee if I tweet this people will be like oh my god I thought so I read the book alright”

“you know that movie is really pretty good good movie yeah yeah there was a I met the author the guy that wrote anyway the guy that wrote the book and I told him that I really didn't like his book [Laughter] yeah he's like why was it because like there's not really enough dynamic pressure in a Martian windstorm”

“there was a I met the author the guy that wrote anyway the guy that wrote the book and I told him that I really didn't like his book”

“Andy Weir the Martian”

“So that was like for a— Did you watch the movie The Martian? We did not watch The Martian, but I had read the book already! And one person read the book while we were in!”

“Andy Weir's on the show today who's famous for books like Project Hail Mary and The Martian.”

“It's Project Hail Mary uh by Andy Weir. He's a guy who wrote The Martian.”

“he's of course the author of The Martian which was a massive besteller a book that he started off by self-publishing”

“not hugely surprising because the Martian was such a huge hit our reviewer enk jemson who does our science fiction column points out he's maybe better on screen than he is as a bookwriter”

“books that might be similar that that people might have read would be the Martian”

“to Andy wear's the Martian which for those of you who haven't read it it's told entirely through the logs of an astronaut who's stranded”

“he's the guy who wrote The Martian which became the movie with Matt Damon stranded on Mars”

“a copy of the Martian by Andy Weir on a table sitting in front of a TV screen”

“just I'm just saying we've had Andy Weir as a guest on Star Talk and he would want you to call him Mark Watney”

“I'm just saying we've had Andy Weir as a guest on Star Talk, and he would want you to call him Mark Watney! Mark Watney!”

“So okay, whatever the soil is, as of now it probably isn't very fertile; you know, because it doesn't have organics from the book and movie, The Martian.”

“martian the movie two hours thank you”

“He's the author of the martian”

“and in fact you might need those to beam signals back to earth the way uh matt damon mark watney yeah his name mark watney yeah yeah yeah so you need those”

“um by the guy who did the martian who wrote the martian mm-hmm you know matt damon no the book”

“it's not going to be that easy as easy as growing a whole plot of potatoes like in the movie The Martian you know or something”

“well starting to think that like hey we know we all just read the Martian or watched a movie”