She shows Roy classified footage revealing that Clifford's team mutinied and attempted to return to Earth, causing him to shut off their life-support systems her parents were among those killed. Roy is visited by facility director Helen Lantos, who reveals that her parents were Lima Project team members. After numerous attempts, SpaceCom finally receives a response and plans a mission to the Lima Project station but refuses to allow Roy to participate. In the underground SpaceCom base on Mars, Roy begins recording voice messages to send to the Lima Project in hopes that Clifford will respond. Roy assumes command and calmly lands the ship. Tanner is mauled to death, but Roy kills the primate by suffocating it in an airlock.Īnother surge hits as the Cepheus is attempting to land on Mars. Tanner board the station and find no survivors, but are attacked by an escaped research primate.
Roy travels to Mars aboard Cepheus and after initially telling the captain to ignore the call and continue without interruption, he and the captain are nevertheless duty-bound to investigate a biomedical research space station broadcasting a distress signal. Pruitt reveals to Roy that if he fails to contact his father, the Lima Project station will have to be destroyed. Told his father may be alive, Roy agrees to travel to Mars to establish communication with him.Įn route to the SpaceCom base on the Moon's far side, scavenger pirates ambush Roy and his colleague Pruitt. Clifford McBride, was the project's leader. Major Roy McBride is informed that the surges have been traced to the "Lima Project", a space station sent 29 years earlier to search for intelligent life in orbit around Neptune. In the late 21st century, mysterious power surges threaten all human life. The film grossed $135 million worldwide against an $80–100 million budget. At the 92nd Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Sound Mixing. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Pitt's performance. Filming began around Los Angeles that August, lasting through October.Īd Astra premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on September 20, 2019, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures via 20th Century Fox. Pitt signed on to star in April 2017 and the rest of the cast joined later that year. The project was announced in early 2016, with Gray saying he wanted to feature "the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie". Starring Brad Pitt (who also produced), Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who ventures into space in search of his lost father, whose obsessive quest to discover intelligent alien life at all costs threatens the Solar System and all life on Earth. Ad Astra ( Latin for " To the Stars") is a 2019 American psychological science fiction film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray.
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