When asked by "Nickel Boys" director RaMell Ross if "The Martian" cost more to make than sending a real rover to Mars ... Scott previously said during the 2015 AFI Film Fest that screenwriter ...
But Watney's a clever guy: He realizes that NASA's Mars lander, Pathfinder, is close by in the Martian valley called Ares Vallis ... landing their Curiosity rover there in 2011 but ultimately ...