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Watch: Brad Pitt is in search of his father in space in the emotionally haunting new trailer of 'Ad Astra'

Brad Pitt is on a mission. In the new sci-fi thriller Ad Astra, the star plays Roy McBride, an astronaut who heads into space to look for his father, the renegade astronaut Clifford McBride played by Tommy Lee Jones who went missing on a mission 16 years prior and whose ship contains material that could threaten to end life as we know it. 

The film explores the dark side of a father-son dynamic. Roy uncovers shocking things about his father over the course of the story, delving deeper into his past as he searches for the truth about Clifford’s whereabouts. In a way, director and co-writer James Gray said, the story is about “the last grasp of the patriarchy.” Clifford is essentially a “Buzz Aldrin-type figure—if he’d gone mad in deep space.”

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The writer-director was inspired to write Ad Astra after researching the first nuclear chain reaction Stagg Field in the 1940s. At the time, some feared that the experiment would set off a dangerous, unstoppable reaction: “science out of control,” James mused. The trailer here trades in atmosphere, menacing shots of space, and just little hints of action thrown in. 

After an embattled production, which included several delays and an uncertain future following the Fox-Disney merger, Ad Astra, starring Pitt and Jones alongside Liv Tyler, Ruth Negga, and Donald Sutherland, is slated to hit theatres September 20.

Watch the new trailer of Ad Astra here: 

(Source: Youtube) 

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