If it didn’t already seem like everyone and their mother was planning to hop aboard Ridley Scott’s The Martian, perhaps news that Donald Glover (“Community“) has been added to the ever-growing cast will make you see it that way.
According to The Wrap, Glover will join Matt Damon in the upcoming adaptation of Andy Weir’s self-published science-fiction novel, which tells the story of an astronaut (Damon) who finds himself stranded on Mars with seemingly little chance of returning home.
Glover, who was most recently seen in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and is currently filming Magic Mike XXL, is set to play a bright young NASA employee in the project. In addition to Glover, Aksel Hennie (Hercules) is reported to have accepted a role in the film, not as a NASA employee but as an astronaut.
Jessica Chastain, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Kristen Wiig, and Jeff Daniels are also orbiting the project, though none have been officially confirmed for roles in the 20th Century Fox production. All are rumored to be playing either NASA employees or fellow astronauts, so I find it hard to believe ol’ Matty Boy won’t be able to make his way back to Earth, but stranger things have happened, I suppose.
