Mission to Mars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Mission to Mars or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Mission to Mars

[ken]

This came out the same year as another Mars-themed film, Red Planet (2000). Both were unsuccessful, critically and commercially.

[marc]

Jerry O'Connell loved wearing the space suit on set: "I felt like a super hero."

[charlie]

The original director of the film was Gore Verbinski. When the budget was upgraded, Brian De Palma started to show interest. Rewrites in the script were also done.

[melinda]

Gary Sinise and Kim Delaney were lately involved with the CSI franchise: Sinise played Mac Taylor in CSI: NY (2004) and Delaney played Megan Donner in CSI: Miami (2002).

[javier]

All of the plants are real. They were grown hydroponically - in liquid, not soil.

[ava]

The wristwatch worn by the crew sent to determine what happened during the first mission to Mars is the Omega X-33.

[jesus]

Tim Robbins on acting inside the suits: "You hear your own breathing. It's an interesting, very insular, world."

[marc]

Jerry O'Connell took this role because he studied Brian De Palma movies in film school.

[carl]

After Mars Recovery is given the OK to enter orbit around Mars, Woody Blake says "Let's light this candle". This is exactly what Alan Shepard, the first American in space, said just before lift-off on his inaugural Mercury flight.

[sylvia]

Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000 (#04)

[melinda]

One of two science-fiction Mars movies that were first released in the year 2000 and were both partly shot in Wadi Rum in Jordan. The films are 'Red Planet' (2000) and 'Mission to Mars' (2000).

[carla]

Gary Sinise was strapped in a chair that really rotated around and around until he asked Brian De Palma to stop.

[veronica]

The rotating circles that signify the alien countdown are indeed counting down... in binary. The circles in their horizontal and vertical configurations correspond to zeroes (0) and ones (1) respectively, and the least significant bit (LSB) on the viewer's left. The sequence in which they turn correspond to a binary countdown. The leftmost lit circle is not part of the binary count. There is an initial pattern of "all horizontal", following which the countdown actually begins (starting with "all vertical").

[jamie]

That dust is blown by 10 massive 350-horsepower wind machines. The whole crew wore gas masks while they shot it.

[alyssa]

The crew reflected copper light onto the actors to mimic the orange atmosphere of the Martian sky.