Mark Elijah Rosenberg‘s Approaching the Unknown, is less about the majesty of the stars–and like Ridley Scott‘s recent The Martian–more about a singular man’s experience. The successful films have always let the characters keep it grounded, despite the setting, while keeping us in awe of the grand vastness of space. It’s Approaching the Unknown.Īs space movies goes, reaching Mars as been a staple of the genre for decades, the red planet a source for all kinds of stories from monsters and aliens to horror and comedy to colonization and isolation.
An American astronaut travels to Mars to be the first human to live on another world, encountering challenges along the way.
