Yeah, after seeing The Lost City of Z I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this. Z has great cinematography and a pretty compelling little historical story. So I look forward to a space sci-fi thriller from this guy...
In Ad Astra (which means “to the stars” in Latin), Pitt would play the slightly autistic space engineer Roy McBride. Twenty years after his father left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence, McBride travels through the solar system to find him and understand why his mission failed. -snip
Aye it does a bit. A lot of philosophical monologues.
Excellent portrayal of near future space technology.
It brought up a lot of potential issues around country's implementing a kind of cold war on the moon over resources then it just ignores all the themes and questions it raises because in one of Brad Pitt's character's psyche evaluations he mentions that he ignores everything that is not essential and so all those things are irrelevant to him.
In the end it just boils down to him and his abandonment issues while he calmly goes about completing his mission.
There's some weird space monkey stuff too. Literal killer monkeys in space eating dude's faces off.
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