Production Information
A paranoid thriller in space that follows Roy McBride (Brad 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.
Directed by James Gray (The Lost City of Z, The Immigrant), from a screenplay by Gray and his long-time associate Ethan Gross (“Fringe”), AD ASTRA also stars Academy Award® winner Tommy Lee Jones (Just Getting Started, Jason Bourne), Academy Award® nominee Ruth Negga (Loving, “Preacher”); Liv Tyler (The Lord of the Rings, Armageddon) and Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games, Trust).
The film was produced by Plan B Entertainment’s Academy Award®-winning principals Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, p.g.a. and Jeremy Kleiner, p.g.a. (Vice, Moonlight, 12 Years A Slave, The Big Short) along with James Gray, p.g.a., Anthony Katagas, p.g.a. (The Lost City of Z, 12 Years a Slave), RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira, p.g.a. (Call Me by Your Name) and New Regency Pictures’ Arnon Milchan (Gone Girl). Mark Butan, Lourenço Sant’Anna, Sophie Mas, Yu Dong, Jeffrey Chan, Anthony Mosawi, Paul Conway, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer serve as executive producers.
Joining Gray on the film are Academy Award®-nominated cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema, ASC, FSF, NSC (Tenet, Dunkirk), production designer Kevin Thompson (who previously designed Gray’s films The Yards and Little Odessa), editors John Axelrad, ACE (The Lost City of Z, The Immigrant) and Lee Haugen (The Lost City of Z, Dope), composer Max Richter (Mary, Queen of Scots, “The Leftovers”), additional composer Lorne Balme (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, “The Crown”), music supervisors Randall Poster (Allegiant, Insurgent) and George Drakoulias (The Hangover Part III, Detroit), visual effects supervisor Allen Maris (Prometheus, Robin Hood), two-time Academy Award®-winning costume designer Albert Wolsky (Bugsy, All That Jazz;) and casting director Douglas Aibel, CSA (Manchester by the Sea, The Grand Budapest Hotel).
