Tommy Lee Jones to star with Brad Pitt in 'Ad Astra'
Actor Tommy Lee Jones is in final talks to star with Brad Pitt in "Ad Astra".
Actor Tommy Lee Jones is in final talks to star with Brad Pitt in "Ad Astra".
The sci-fi epic will be directed by James Gray, who has co-written it with Ethan Gross.
According to Deadline, 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.
Jones will play Pitt's father in the movie, being produced by Plan B with Gray, RT Features' Rodrigo Teixeira, Keep Your Head Productions' Anthony Katagas and Mad River's Marc Butan.
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