No, this wasn’t Burning Man. I was on Mars.

 

From inside a mysterious black tent on my right, a voice boomed in a Yorkshire accent: “Tilt and backwards!” Earthlings in the dirt scrambled. “The tilt is too jerky. There’s a jerk!”

 

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This Mars was inside a dust-covered studio soundstage just outside Budapest, Hungary. The voice belonged to Ridley Scott, the British director of Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator fame (and Exodus: Gods and Kings infamy). The orange dirt under my boots was the setting for his latest project, The Martian, a Matt Damon vehicle (and his vehicle is a Mars rover) scheduled for theatrical release October 2. read more