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AD ASTRA Rockets Into Theaters On September 20 Starring Brad Pitt – Watch The New Clip And Get Tickets Now

By Michelle McCue | September 6, 2019

20th Century Fox has released a special preview of the intense, action-filled “Moon Rover” sequence from AD ASTRA, coming to theaters on September 20, 2019. Starring Brad Pitt, AD ASTRA is a paranoid thriller in space that follows Roy McBride (Pitt) on a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

Director James Gray (THE LOST CITY OF Z, THE IMMIGRANT) and director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema (INTERSTELLAR, DUNKIRK) researched actual images of the Moon from the Apollo lunar missions to ensure an authentic look that will surely be breathtaking on the big screen.

AD ASTRA stars Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland.

Watch the special extended clip now.

CNET says: “Pitt stunningly embodies the astronaut stepping into the crushing vacuum of space and the even more desolate vacuum left by a missing father. Pitt is masterful in conveying both supreme, unshakeable capability and aching, spiraling vulnerability. It’s not as charming as his laid-back stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but it may be the better performance.”

Variety says: “James Gray, the director and co-writer of “Ad Astra,” is the furthest thing you could imagine from a space dude; he’s a rigorous indie filmmaker known for such fine-grained fare as “The Lost City of Z,” “The Immigrant” and (my favorite Gray film) “Two Lovers.” But in taking on his first blockbustery sci-fi project, he handles the vast logistical challenges of staging an epic space adventure with a surefire hand and a sense of detail, pace, and control that are notably accomplished, if not quite Kubrickian. Gray proves beyond measure that he’s got the chops to make a movie like this.”

Indiewire’s David Ehrlich says in his review: ““Ad Astra” is one of the most ruminative, withdrawn, and curiously optimistic space epics this side of “Solaris.”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.”

The ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood has an out-of-this-world display in their lobby. WAMG took these pics two weeks ago.