The Martian (soundtrack): History and Key Facts

The Martian is the 2015 science fiction film based on Andy Weir's 2011 novel of the same name directed by Ridley Scott. Two soundtrack albums for the film were released by Columbia Records on October 2, 2015. The first album titled The Martian: Original Motion Picture Score, features instrumental tracks from the original score composed and conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams, and the latter, featured incorporated songs used in the film, that was released as a separate album under the title Songs from The Martian. The music served as a "comic relief" to provide sarcasm where most of the songs are chosen and performed ironically.

This film marked the fourth collaboration between Gregson-Williams and Scott, the former worked on Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Prometheus (2012) and Exodus: Gods and Kings, composing the main film score for the first and last films, and doing additional music for the other two. Williams said that, the score would be mostly hybrid, but also being "epic" and "large" in terms of scale, while the film tells about a man's survival. A deluxe edition combining both the film score and the soundtrack, were released in digital and physical formats on November 6.

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