Mission To Mars
Release Date: March 10, 2000

WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL? They go to Mars. For the first time this year.

THE CAST

GARY SINISE: Most recently seen hamming it up in Reindeer Games, Gary mostly makes good movies, including The Green Mile, Apollo 13 (where he again played an astronaut) and The Stand.

TIM ROBBINS: Appeared in Howard the Duck less than two years before his movies started winning Oscar nominations. Directed Dead Man Walking and Cradle Will Rock, among others; also starred in Bull Durham, Jacob's Ladder and Shawshank Redemption.

DON CHEADLE: Bad-ass actor with a great voice and a ton of cool credits, including Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, Bulworth and the TV series Picket Fences (he was the DA) and -- oh yes -- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (he was "Ice Trey"!)

JERRY O'CONNELL: Was kind of cool when he was little (Stand By Me) but then had to go and star in Sliders, sing in Scream 2, and appear in The 60s. Ewww...

THE CREW

BRIAN DE PALMA: Has directed some really cool movies, including Carrie, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way and... um... I'm sure someone liked the other ones. The Razzie Awards sure did.

ENNIO MORRICONE: Is so godlike. Great composer scored The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Thing, The Untouchables and a ton of other movies.

OTHER

Mission to Mars is a Touchstone Pictures film produced by David S. Goyer, Justis Greene and Jim Wedaa.

THE PREMISE: A spaceship goes to Mars. Something goes wrong. NASA sends another ship to Mars in the hope that Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and the rest of the actors can solve the problem. Action-packed adventure follows.

GOSSIP and USELESS FACTS:

• Mission to Mars is the latest in a series of annoying abbreviatied titles begun by "ID4" and continued with "MIB". The film is now being advertised as "M2M", seeing as Americans are obviously too stupid to pronounce the whole title.
• This is the first of two Mars movies hitting studios this year; the second, Red Planet follows later this summer. (Just try to make a cheesy abbreviation out of that!)

LINKS
Official Site