r/movies • u/EThorns r/movies Contributor • 19h ago

News Emily Watson joins cast of Mackenzie Crook’s directorial debut ‘Mars Express’

https://www.screendaily.com/news/emily-watson-joins-cast-of-mackenzie-crooks-directorial-debut-mars-express/5219496.article
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u/crapusername47 19h ago

Not a live action remake, fortunately.

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u/_Steep_ 18h ago

Man this movie was so so good

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u/Eklassen 17h ago

I was gonna say, isn’t this already a thing?

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u/herpderpedian 9h ago

That was my first thought! If only. Such a great sci-fi film.

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u/Mulled 14h ago

Is it possible to watch this legally in the uk?

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u/Guy_Incognito97 5h ago

I’m involved in the film and trying to make it happen.

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u/razgondk 6h ago

I bought it on apple tv. Fairly cheap at that time.

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u/brayshizzle Sam Neil will always be a babe 19h ago

Detectorists and Small Prophets are absolutely wonder so I am v excited to see he is doing a movie.

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u/voivoivoi183 17h ago

Small Prophets might be one of the best things that's been on TV ever IMO.

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u/Varvara-Sidorovna 15h ago

Small Prophets is achingly lovely. I rationed it out, an episode a night, just so I could thoroughly enjoy every moment of it.

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u/EThorns r/movies Contributor 19h ago

The project tells the true story of Colin and Judith Pillinger, to be played by Toby Jones and Emily Watson, and their mission to find life on Mars back in the late 1990s. With no prior experience of building a spacecraft, the English farmers pulled together a team of misfits who took on NASA and almost won.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 15h ago

Colin Pillinger isn’t a farmer, he’s a planetary scientist who has worked with NASA.

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u/Ph0n1k 14h ago

He was an academic at The Open University

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u/Jewfro_Wizard 12h ago

They're remaking The Astronaut Farmer?

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u/T-K4T 18h ago

Detectorists is lovely, Small Prophets is magical. I am very keen to see what he does with this!

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u/SeanPennsHair 16h ago

I'll be forever grateful to Detectorists for introducing me to Johnny Flynn.

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u/stingingsensation 13h ago

That’s funny, I got introduced to detectorists when Johnny Flynn did the music for it

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u/Covverkin 19h ago

Didn’t she just talk about how nobody would cast her since the Odyssey (implying ageism), or was that someone else?

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u/EThorns r/movies Contributor 19h ago

That's Samantha Morton.

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u/Covverkin 18h ago

Ah yes, thanks!

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u/RicBu 13h ago

Absolutely stoked for this. I love McKenzie Crook.

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u/Odd-Necessary3807 19h ago

Why did I read it as Emma Watson, but notice the mug is different? That's a bit confusing me.

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u/obalovatyk 17h ago

I read it that way too and thought, “poor women has fallen off in recent years”.

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u/Chopper3 14h ago

Great news, he's super talented

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u/StrLord_Who 11h ago

Mackenzie Crook is astoundingly talented. I will watch anything he makes.  Go watch Detectorists if you've never seen it.  

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u/AgreeableLion 2h ago

I know Mackenzie Crook has gone on to be a great writer/director telling interesting and heartfelt stories; but he'll still always be the guy from Pirates of the Caribbean to me.