The sci-fi movie starring Brad Pitt in Star + that will make you call your dad

Sci-fi movies seem to have a curse at the box office and then end up being cult classics that are unlikely to have a following, with the exception of “Blade Runner 2049”. Director James Gray released in 2019, ‘Ad Astra’, a science fiction thriller in which Brad Pitt stars in a story about a son looking for his father through space.

James Gray is a director who had already demonstrated his incredible mastery on the camera with ‘Z, the Lost City’, an adventure drama in which Tom Holland, Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson starred. Looking forward to his new movie, ‘Armageddon Time’, ‘Ad Astra’ It’s a science fiction movie which seems the most personal and intimate of his career so far.

First, ‘Ad Astra’ is a science fiction movie found on Star +, although in other regions it is available through Netflix and even Disney +. In this story, Brad Pitt plays Roy McBride, a space engineer who lost his father on a mission to Neptune, whose goal was to find intelligent life on the planet. However, this would never come back.

Tomy Lee Jones, best known for his role in “The Men in Black”, plays Brad Pitt’s father, Clifford McBridde. After 20 years of not knowing where he was, Roy decides to embark on the same journey through the entire solar system, only to find his father. Unlike other films of the genre such as ‘Interstellar’, ‘Ad Astra’ is a journey of existentialist introspection and reflection that aims to make us rethink our emotional relationships.

Brad Pitt’s beauty and failure in Ad Astra

On the one hand, ‘Ad Astra’ is an unmissable gem for any science fiction fan, precisely for its beautiful and beautiful photography, thanks to the lens of Hoyte Van Hoytema, photographer of other great directors such as Christopher Nolan or Spike Jonze, and here he portrays the landscapes of the solar system like no one else has done before, with solemnity, but also with nostalgia.

James Gray’s idea was to make “the most realistic depiction of space travel ever shot on film”, and boy did it do it. It is an intimate and personal story that, leaving behind the science fiction aspect, is a family drama about a son who wants the love he could never get from his father, human aspirations and what is left to make dreams and dreams come true. goals of each.

But while it has received a new wave of grateful fans in recent months, that doesn’t mean “Ad Astra” was a box office flop by today’s standards. It had a collection of $ 135 million, only slightly exceeding its initial budget of 90 million. For Brad Pitt, who was also the film’s producer, he didn’t care about the failure, but that the film would last, which he more than achieved.