Ad Astra (2019)

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

Has ‘WWZ 2’ Delay Created Opening For Brad Pitt On James Gray’s ‘Ad Astra’?
by Diana Lodderhose & Mike Fleming Jr
February 8, 2017 10:18am

EXCLUSIVE: Now that Paramount has pulled the World War Z sequel off the release calendar, the question around town is: What will Brad Pitt star in next? We hear the front-runner is Ad Astra, the futuristic sci-fi epic that James Gray co-wrote and will direct. Sources said work is being done to keep the budget manageable but that the project is on the verge of landing at New Regency — where Pitt’s Plan B has its deal — and could be in production by summer.

Pitt produced Gray’s latest film The Lost City of Z, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and was acquired by Amazon Studios for release in April. Pitt originally was attached to star in that film, in the role played by Charlie Hunnam, and he once also was attached to Gray’s The Gray Man. Meanwhile, Paramount and Plan B continue to work on the WWZ 2 script and the ongoing effort to get director David Fincher to commit.

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.

Gray wrote the script with Ethan Gross, and RT Features financed that development phase independently to get it this far. Plan B is joining the producers roster of Gray, RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira, Keep Your Head Productions’ Anthony Katagas and Mad River’s Marc Butan. RT Features’ Lourenco Sant’Anna and Sophie Mas are exec producing.

CAA, which reps Gray and Pitt, is repping domestic rights. Pitt is managed by Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

[Cremildo]

Starts shooting next month.

[imsounoriginal]

Premise sounds great, and Pitt means I'm in.

[Foggy]

Ad Astra, the futuristic sci-fi epic that James Gray co-wrote and will direct.

[Visionist]

Cool

[Cremildo]

Tommy Lee Jones joins the cast

[Hoke Moseley]

TLJ is playing the father, awesome.

Really looking forward to this.

[don3663]

Fan of the director. Not a fan of Pitt. Sceptical yet happy James is getting work in Hollywood again.

[Jaymole]

Definitely excited by this!

[aiman04]

Just found out about this. Just my kind of film. It seems like all set to shoot already, but only two cast listed. This might be just about them, a father and son drama in space. Even better.

[aiman04]

Cinematography by Hoyte Van Hoytema. No stranger to space travel. This is now at the very top of my list for 2018.

[Darth Marcus]

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Ruth Negga Joins Brad Pitt in 'Ad Astra' (Exclusive)
AUGUST 07, 2017 12:00pm PT by Rebecca Ford, Borys Kit

James Gray's sci-fi epic will also star Tommy Lee Jones.

Oscar-nominated actress Ruth Negga will star with Brad Pitt in New Regency's Ad Astra, James Gray's upcoming sci-fi epic.

Tommy Lee Jones also is attached to the project, which is described an adventure film about one man’s journey across a lawless and unforgiving solar system to find his missing father, a renegade scientist who poses a threat to all of mankind.

Negga's role is being kept under wraps for now.

Gray will direct the feature film from a script he co-wrote with Ethan Gross. New Regency, 20th Century Fox and Bona Film Group are financing the film. Fox will distribute in the U.S. and internationally in every market except Greater China, where Bona Film Group will distribute the project.

Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing under their Plan B banner with RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira, Keep Your Head Productions’ Anthony Katagas, and Gray. Mad River’s Marc Butan and RT’ Features’ Lourenco Sant’Anna and Sophie Mas are executive producing along with Yu Dong, Jeffrey Chan, Anthony Mosawi and Paul Conway.

Ad Astra continues a string of successful feature film partnerships between New Regency and Plan B, including the Oscar-nominated The Big Short and Oscar winner 12 Years a Slave, as well as the upcoming feature Wrong Answer, directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan, and written by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Negga, who stars on the AMC series Preacher (the 13-episode second season premiered in June), received a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for her work in Jeff Nichols’ Loving opposite Joel Egerton. She's repped by ICM, Principal Entertainment and Markham Froggatt and Irwin.

[AaronJ]

Wow, this is really shaping up as something!

[Cremildo]

Donald Sutherland Joins the Cast

[Hoke Moseley]

Phenomenal addition. I'll say it again..... really looking forward to this.

[aiman04]

This is looking better and better.

[Cremildo]

Release Date: 1/11/2019.

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Release Date: 1/11/2019.

That's my birthday.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Release Date: 1/11/2019.

3 days after my birthday!!!!!!

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Release Date: 1/11/2019.

7 months before my birthday!