Sean Bean is set to join Matt Damon in Ridley Scott’s space survival drama “The Martian” at 20th Century Fox.

Damon plays an astronaut stranded on a Martian colony who struggles to survive long enough for NASA to organize a rescue mission. Bean plays a NASA flight director.

Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kate Mara, Michael Pena and Kristen Wiig also star in the film which Drew Goddard penned. Simon Kinberg and Aditya Sood are producing.

Source: Heat Vision