Ad Astra is a 2019 American science fiction adventure film produced, co-written and directed by James Gray. Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who goes into space in search of his lost father, whose experiment threatens the solar system.
The project was announced in early 2016, with Gray saying he wanted to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie". Pitt signed on to star in April 2017 and the rest of the cast joined later that year. Filming began around Los Angeles that August, lasting through October.
Ad Astra had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019. It is scheduled to be theatrically released on September 20 in the United States by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the 20th Century Fox banner.[3] It has received positive reviews from critics, with universal praise for Pitt's performance.
Premise
Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the Solar System to find his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of humans on Earth. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and its place in the cosmos.
Cast
Brad Pitt as Major Roy McBride, Clifford’s son and Eve’s husband
Tommy Lee Jones as Clifford McBride, Roy’s lost father whose experiment threatens the entire solar system.
Ruth Negga as Helen Lantos
Liv Tyler as Eve McBride, Roy's wife
Donald Sutherland as Colonel Pruitt
Jamie Kennedy as Peter Bello
John Finn as Stroud
Kimberly Elise as Lorraine Deavers
Bobby Nish as Franklin Yoshida
LisaGay Hamilton as Adjutant General Amelia Vogel
John Ortiz as General Rivas
Greg Bryk as Chip Garnes
Loren Dean as Donald Stanford
Donnie Keshawarz as Captain Lawrence Tanner
Natasha Lyonne as Tanya Pincus[5]
Production
Director James Gray first confirmed his plans to write and direct Ad Astra on May 12, 2016 during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
In April 2017, while promoting The Lost City of Z, Gray compared the story of Ad Astra to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Gray also mentioned that he intended for the film to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie and to basically say, 'Space is awfully hostile to us.'" Gray also confirmed that filming for Ad Astra would commence on July 17, 2017.[7]
On April 10, 2017, James Gray confirmed that Brad Pitt would star in Ad Astra.[8] In June, Tommy Lee Jones joined the cast to portray Pitt's lost father.[9] In August, Ruth Negga, John Finn, Donald Sutherland and Jamie Kennedy joined the cast.[10][11][12][13]
Principal photography on the film began in mid-August 2017 in Santa Clarita, California, lasting 60 days.[14][15][16]
The visual effects are provided by Moving Picture Company, Method Studios, Mr. X, Weta Digital, Brainstorm Digital, and Capital T and Supervised by Christopher Downs, Guillaume Rocheron, Ryan Tudhope, Aidan Fraser, Olaf Wendt, Anders Langlands, Eran Dinur, and Jamie Hallett and Territory Studio.[17]
Release
Ad Astra had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019.[18][19] It is scheduled to be released on September 19, 2019, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.[20] It was previously scheduled for January 11, 2019 and then for May 24 before being pushed back.[21]
Reception
Box office
In the United States and Canada, Ad Astra will be released alongside Downton Abbey and Rambo: Last Blood, and is projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,450 theaters in its opening weekend.[22][2]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 81% based on 112 reviews, with an average rating of 7.82/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Ad Astra takes a visually thrilling journey through the vast reaches of space while charting an ambitious course for the heart of the bond between parent and child."[23] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 80 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[24]
David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film an "A", saying that "Ad Astra is one of the most ruminative, withdrawn, and curiously optimistic space epics this side of Solaris. It's also one of the best."[25] Similarly, Xan Brooks of The Guardian gave the film five out of five stars, called it a "superb space-opera" and praised Pitt's performance, writing: "Pitt embodies McBride with a series of deft gestures and a minimum of fuss. His performance is so understated it hardly looks like acting at all."[26] Variety's Owen Gleiberman praised Pitt's performance and wrote: "Gray proves beyond measure that he's got the chops to make a movie like this. He also has a vision, of sorts — one that's expressed, nearly inadvertently, in the metaphor of that space antenna.
The project was announced in early 2016, with Gray saying he wanted to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie". Pitt signed on to star in April 2017 and the rest of the cast joined later that year. Filming began around Los Angeles that August, lasting through October.
Ad Astra had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019. It is scheduled to be theatrically released on September 20 in the United States by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the 20th Century Fox banner.[3] It has received positive reviews from critics, with universal praise for Pitt's performance.
Premise
Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the Solar System to find his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of humans on Earth. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and its place in the cosmos.
Cast
Brad Pitt as Major Roy McBride, Clifford’s son and Eve’s husband
Tommy Lee Jones as Clifford McBride, Roy’s lost father whose experiment threatens the entire solar system.
Ruth Negga as Helen Lantos
Liv Tyler as Eve McBride, Roy's wife
Donald Sutherland as Colonel Pruitt
Jamie Kennedy as Peter Bello
John Finn as Stroud
Kimberly Elise as Lorraine Deavers
Bobby Nish as Franklin Yoshida
LisaGay Hamilton as Adjutant General Amelia Vogel
John Ortiz as General Rivas
Greg Bryk as Chip Garnes
Loren Dean as Donald Stanford
Donnie Keshawarz as Captain Lawrence Tanner
Natasha Lyonne as Tanya Pincus[5]
Production
Director James Gray first confirmed his plans to write and direct Ad Astra on May 12, 2016 during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
In April 2017, while promoting The Lost City of Z, Gray compared the story of Ad Astra to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Gray also mentioned that he intended for the film to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie and to basically say, 'Space is awfully hostile to us.'" Gray also confirmed that filming for Ad Astra would commence on July 17, 2017.[7]
On April 10, 2017, James Gray confirmed that Brad Pitt would star in Ad Astra.[8] In June, Tommy Lee Jones joined the cast to portray Pitt's lost father.[9] In August, Ruth Negga, John Finn, Donald Sutherland and Jamie Kennedy joined the cast.[10][11][12][13]
Principal photography on the film began in mid-August 2017 in Santa Clarita, California, lasting 60 days.[14][15][16]
The visual effects are provided by Moving Picture Company, Method Studios, Mr. X, Weta Digital, Brainstorm Digital, and Capital T and Supervised by Christopher Downs, Guillaume Rocheron, Ryan Tudhope, Aidan Fraser, Olaf Wendt, Anders Langlands, Eran Dinur, and Jamie Hallett and Territory Studio.[17]
Release
Ad Astra had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019.[18][19] It is scheduled to be released on September 19, 2019, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.[20] It was previously scheduled for January 11, 2019 and then for May 24 before being pushed back.[21]
Reception
Box office
In the United States and Canada, Ad Astra will be released alongside Downton Abbey and Rambo: Last Blood, and is projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,450 theaters in its opening weekend.[22][2]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 81% based on 112 reviews, with an average rating of 7.82/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Ad Astra takes a visually thrilling journey through the vast reaches of space while charting an ambitious course for the heart of the bond between parent and child."[23] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 80 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[24]
David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film an "A", saying that "Ad Astra is one of the most ruminative, withdrawn, and curiously optimistic space epics this side of Solaris. It's also one of the best."[25] Similarly, Xan Brooks of The Guardian gave the film five out of five stars, called it a "superb space-opera" and praised Pitt's performance, writing: "Pitt embodies McBride with a series of deft gestures and a minimum of fuss. His performance is so understated it hardly looks like acting at all."[26] Variety's Owen Gleiberman praised Pitt's performance and wrote: "Gray proves beyond measure that he's got the chops to make a movie like this. He also has a vision, of sorts — one that's expressed, nearly inadvertently, in the metaphor of that space antenna.
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