'The Martian' trailer with Matt Damon's out, and here's what you can watch till it releases

One, take a character and make him go on an expedition, an adventure. [caption id=“attachment_2288774” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Matt Damon in The Martian. [/caption] Two, separate him from his crew, and in a battered condition, leave stranded in a harsh environment. Three, make that environment Mars. This is the heart stopping premise of Ridley Scott’s latest, ‘The Martian’, based on the bestseller book by Andy Weir. Matt Damon plays the stranded astronaut in this space science fiction which also stars Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Sebastian Stan, and Aksel Hennie, Sean Bean, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jeff Daniels.

The trailer looks tense and well acted out, but after Scott’s recent endeavours, we hope this one turns out as good as it looks. Now, if the trailer has got your space sci-fi juices flowing, we’ve got some recommendations for you which you can check out before the movie comes out in October. - Moon: This 2009 mystery from Duncan Jones is a gems of a sci-fi movie to have come out in recent years.

- Gravity: This 2013 visual effect porn by Alfonso Cuarón turned out to be a game changer for the entire genre.

- Sunshine: Before Gravity, there was Sunshine. The 2007 Danny Boyle space mystery follows a group astronauts sent on a mission to reignite the dying Sun.

- Apollo 13: This 1995 Ron Howard recounts the disaster that struck the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

- Interstellar: The latest from Christopher Nolan takes the viewers on a journey where humanity has never been before.

- 2001: A Space Odyssey: The granddaddy of all space sci-fi movies, this 1968 Stanley Kubrick has inspired generations of movie directors and is a must watch for any sci-fi fan.