10 Completely Original Movies To Look Out For In 2019
2. Ad Astra
Release Date: 24 May 2019
It's been an outstanding few years for spacey sci-fi adventures - both original and adapted - with the likes of Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian resonating with both audiences and critics. All being well, Ad Astra will continue this positive forward momentum.
Starring Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride, Ad Astra will follow the character as he ventures into the depths of the solar system to locate his missing father, who went out on his own doomed space mission 20 years earlier.
Our first look at the movie - a still image featuring Pitt's character - was quite gloomy and dark, which fits with director James Gray's tendency to craft slower, more thoughtful stories. There will be a ton of spectacle in Ad Astra, for sure (Gray's underrated Lost City Of Z looked stunning), but the movie will also have an engaging dramatic core to go along with it.
Gray also told Collider that he's trying to craft "the most realistic depiction of space travel that’s been put in a movie and to basically say, ‘Space is awfully hostile to us’", indicating that we're in for an intense adventure that puts its characters through the physical and emotional wringer, with a peppering of that awe and wonder that deep space movies can incite.