James Gray’s sci-fi feature “Ad Astra” has been pushed back four months and will now open May 24th 2019. Despite being under three months away, no media materials from the film have been released (beyond the above pic) making such a delay easy.
Brad Pitt plays an autistic space engineer travelling through the solar system to find his missing father and understand why his mission failed. Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga and Donald Sutherland co-star.
“The Lost City of Z” filmmaker James Gray turns his sights towards epic science fiction with this tale which is akin to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” in storyline and boasts that it incorporates the “most realistic depiction of space travel that’s been put in a movie”. The story begins twenty years after a man’s father (Tommy Lee Jones) left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence. The son (Brad Pitt) travels through the solar system to find him and learn what went wrong.