Matt Damon, Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian Star in The Martian Sequel Stuck on Uranus: Watch the Parody!

Talk show host spoofs the sci-fi movie with the actor and E! reality star

By Zach Johnson Oct 06, 2015 3:03 PMTags
Stuck on Uranus, Kim KardashianThe Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Martian wasn't a comedy, but its proposed sequel will be.

After the Matt Damon-starring film debuted at No. 1 over the weekend, raking in $55 million in the U.S., Ellen DeGeneres took it upon herself to create its follow-up. As luck would have it, the daytime host had a sneak peek prepared just in time for Tuesday's episode of her eponymous talk show (check your local listings).

In The Martian, Damon played astronaut Mark Watney, who was presumed to be dead and left stranded on Mars. In Stuck on Uranus, Mark is once again alone in outer space. "Even if I could make contact, it would take eight years for another person to reach Uranus," he says in a video diary. "So, I'm left with only one option: I'm going to have to explore the surface of Uranus."

DeGeneres plays the head of NASA, while E!'s Kim Kardashian plays "an expert" of some kind. Wearing a lab coat and holding a clipboard, she turns and asks, "Did somebody say 'Uranus?'" Meanwhile, as Mark attempts to survive long enough to be rescued, he tells Earth, "No matter what happens, tell the world, tell my family that I never stopped fighting to get off of Uranus."

Stuck on Uranus has a pretty cheeky tagline, too: "One Man. One Planet. One Joke."

Jokes aside, The Martian exceeded expectations to rank as the second October debut ever. The film's estimated U.S. opening surpassed that of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar ($47.5 million) in 2014 and nearly equaled the opening of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity ($55.8 million) in 2013.

It's director Ridley Scott's second best opening behind 2001's Hannibal.

It's also Damon's second best opening after 2007's Bourne Ultimatum.

Last week's box-office champ, Hotel Transylvania 2, slid to second place with an estimated $33 million. Sony's animated sequel has earned $90.5 million since it premiered Sept. 25. The rest of the Top 10 included Sicario (No. 3, $12.1 million),The Intern (No. 4, $11.6 million), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (No. 5, $7.7 million), Black Mass (No. 6, $5.9 million), Everest (No. 7, $5.5 million),The Visit (No. 8, $3.9 million),War Room (No. 9, $2.8 million) and The Perfect Guy (No. 10, $2.4 million).

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