Ridley Scott’s next movie, The Martian, will supposedly only feature Matt Damon in peril, as an astronaut struggling to survive on Mars while NASA scrambles to get a rescue mission to the Red Planet. But we’re assuming something goes wrong in mission control, too, as according to the Hollywood Reporter they’ve just cast Sean Bean.
The Martian has already put together an impressive cast: Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain, and Kate Mara, for example. So Bean’s joining good company as a flight director who probably tensely argues with somebody over whether to save Damon or leave him on Mars. Then he’s assassinated by rogue environmentalists or aliens show up, vaporize him, and leave.
Granted, we’re just assuming Sean Bean’s going to die in the movie. But, in our defense, there’s decidedly a pattern to the poor guy’s roles:
OK, in retrospect, at least some of those movies might betray a pattern of his agent hating him. We’ll find out if Bean dies this time November 2015.
