Ad Astra Space Cowboys

Starring brad pitt 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 experiment threatens the solar system.

Ad astra space cowboys. But that s far from the only connection between the two films. Some fans think it is happening with the latest addition to the bunch ad astra. Astronaut roy mcbride undertakes 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. Films like apollo 13 space cowboys.

In ad astra brad pitt an astronaut is going to space to search or stop something that his long lost dad tommy lee jones also an astronaut did or is doing. The theory holds that ad astra is a sequel to the modern space classic space cowboys. Cst by aicnstaff director james gray has an interesting profile of films that goes back to the excellent little odessa then the yards and we own the night. In the opening sequence of ad astra roy mcbride brad pitt a veteran u s.

The lima project took off on 28 dec 2079 and roy mcbride says he was 16 when his father left so he was likely born in 2063. Ad astra is set in 2119 2120 100 years after it was released. Astronaut is doing what he does at the top of a space antenna an elaborate piece. Ad astra 2019 ad astra.

10 actors inspired by clint eastwood. Brad pitt is hunting space cowboy daddy tommy lee jones in james gray s ad astra trailer. As astra 2019 is a secret sequel to space cowboys 2000 fantheory. As far as evidence goes.

In the trailer one of the archival nasa photographs we see is a younger tommy lee jones as an astronaut. I m in mobile so i ll update this in a bit when i can with more details links. The following assumes roy s narration is more reliable than the recollection of events he made to others which is not consistent. Ad astra features roy mcbride s brad pitt top secret voyage to find his father captain clifford mcbride tommy lee jones whose far flung project is creating lethal antimatter power surges that.

But in the realistic depiction of space travel that ad astra presents realism was one of gray s biggest goals with the project the notion of earth.