The Last Days on Mars

The Last Days on Mars

Vincent Campbell

Charles Brunel

Rebecca Lane

Kim Aldrich

Robert Irwin

Marko Petrovic

Lauren Dalby

Flight Commander Ellis

Infected Voices (voice)

Infected Marko (uncredited)

Screenwriter Clive Dawson tried to be faithful to the original short story by Sydney J. Bounds, "The Animators". However, in the story, the crew is composed of six men. For the adaptation, Dawson added two new characters and wrote some of them as female characters.

Ruairi Robinson stated that as a first time director, to get to work with a cast of that caliber was amazing. On the casting process, he commented that he "sort of picked cast members that never normally do this kind of film. They all do serious proper movies". He also said that he "liked the idea of putting people who would never normally do Sci-Fi stuff into a Sci-Fi movie, because they are going to take it seriously then and people are going to take them seriously".

May 2012: Olivia Williams replaces Sally Hawkins, who has to drop out due to personal commitments.

When the crew are out on the surface of Mars you can clearly see blue sky and clouds reflected in their helmet visors.

When Vincent Campbell confronts astronaut Robert Irwin, he opens the door to cockpit and leaves it open. As the scene progresses, the door is closed as he falls against it.It is closed before Irwin engages the boosters- so it did not close from launch-related forces.

During their conversations in the rover while Petrovic and Harrington are returning to site 9 Harrington's right shoulder strap adjuster suddenly flips upside down, then back again.

Rebecca Lane: First big one of the season.

Vincent Campbell: There's a pretty good chance I'm infected too. If that's the case, I've got just enough fuel left to drop out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. At least it'll be quick. You should get this in about 15 minutes, so, uh, I guess I'll be waiting. Five eleven Zulu, Aurora lander out.

Charles Brunel: You'll never get/go home