Ad Astra
PreacherandLovingactor Ruth Negga is the latest heavy name tot to the cast ofAd Astra , the larger-than-life scientific discipline fiction movie James Gray is directing for New Regency . Brad PittandTommy Lee Jonesare already on - room the film about an Army Corps engine driver face across the solar system for his father , who go away during a mission to seek out alien life 20 eld before .
Director James Gray once describedAd Astraas being like Joseph Conrad’sHeart of Darkness(the Holy Writ that inspiredApocalypse Now ) , but in out space . Gray has said he wantsAd Astrato be the most naturalistic word-painting ever of quad travel and how hostile the conditions of outer space are to human organism . Before lining up their foray into the harshness of verboten space , Gray and Brad Pitt sample to filch up for the hobo camp escapade movieThe Lost City of Zbut Pitt was squeeze to drop out of the mould , and Gray iron out frontward with Charlie Hunnam in the lead theatrical role ( though Pitt stayed on as producer ) .
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THRreports that Ruth Negga has signed up to keep company Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones into the darkness of James Gray ’s science fable imaginativeness . Negga ’s theatrical role has not been let on , so it ’s all possible that she will not in reality be traveling into proscribed quad herself , but will be stuck back on Earth the whole movie . The film is expected to get roll this summertime , with no liberation date yet announced .
Among the very few details unwrap so far aboutAd Astrais the intriguing revelation that Brad Pitt ’s engineer character Roy McBride will be " more or less autistic . " The military action of the motion picture occupy McBride to the planet Neptune in hunt of his missing father , who is described as a " renegade scientist " who could pose a threat to humanity . Gray wrote the playscript along with frequent confederate Ethan Gross .
The news of Ruth Negga ’s addition to theAd Astracast tot up another level of intrigue to what already fathom like an interesting project for James Gray and Brad Pitt . Here ’s hoping the story does n’t blow Negga ’s talents by stranding her on ground while her virile conscientious objector - stars get to go into proscribed outer space . IfPreacherhas shown us anything , it ’s that Negga is at her best when she ’s in the midst of the activity , not bump to a sideline character .
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