Drew Goddard, screenplay writer for the Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi blockbuster The Martian, revealed that a scene involving a Lord of the Rings joke was movie's hardest to write.
Warning, there are potential spoilers ahead. Set in a conference room on Earth, the situation involves a council deliberating on a plan to bring stranded astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) back to Earth.
The scheme to rescue Watney is jokingly dubbed "Project Elrond" after the Council of Elrond assembled in The Fellowship of the Ring to discuss what should be done with the One Ring.
“What was the hardest scene? The one that we went over and over several times was the Donald Glover “Council of Elrond” scene, because it's an eight-page scene,” Goddard said in an interview with the LA Times.. “It's a really long scene, which is something you don't normally want to do in screenwriting. You want to keep your scenes around three pages, so this was pretty long, especially for this type of movie.”
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Warning, there are potential spoilers ahead. Set in a conference room on Earth, the situation involves a council deliberating on a plan to bring stranded astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) back to Earth.
The scheme to rescue Watney is jokingly dubbed "Project Elrond" after the Council of Elrond assembled in The Fellowship of the Ring to discuss what should be done with the One Ring.
“What was the hardest scene? The one that we went over and over several times was the Donald Glover “Council of Elrond” scene, because it's an eight-page scene,” Goddard said in an interview with the LA Times.. “It's a really long scene, which is something you don't normally want to do in screenwriting. You want to keep your scenes around three pages, so this was pretty long, especially for this type of movie.”
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