Episode 872
Ad Astra (film)
Sun, 2019-Sep-22 00:45 UTC
Length - 1:48
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With 151,564 views on Saturday, 21 September 2019 our article of the day is Ad Astra (film).
Ad Astra is a 2019 American science fiction adventure film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray. Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who goes into space in search of his lost father, whose experiment threatens the Solar System.
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". Pitt signed on to star in April 2017 and the rest of the cast joined later that year. Filming began around Los Angeles that August, lasting through October.
Ad Astra had its world premiere 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. It received widespread critical acclaim, with universal praise singled out for Pitt's performance.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:45 UTC on Sunday, 22 September 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Ad Astra (film) on Wikipedia.
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