Ad Astra

In the near future, the Earth is being repeatedly struck by mysterious bursts of gamma rays referred to as the 'Surge' that threaten to wipe out all life on the planet. Astronaut Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt, 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood') is a man so stoic and cool under pressure that his heart rate never exceeds 80 BPM and his wife, Eve (Liv Tyler, 'Harlots'), left him due to his apparent inability to connect with her.

Twenty years after his father H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones, 'The Fugitive') left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence, Roy is informed that the source of the surges is the 'Lima Project' base on Neptune, a project in which Roy's father was heavily involved.

When a SpaceCom officer tells Roy that Clifford could still be alive, Roy agrees to go on a mission to Mars to try and communicate with the father he hasn't seen nor spoken to since he was sixteen years old. His father's old colleague, Colonel Pruitt (Donald Sutherland, 'The Hunger Games') is tasked with helping him. Whether or not Clifford has found signs of non-human life out there, Roy is determined to bring him back and to prevent a catastrophic disaster that could destroy all traces of human existence.

'Ad Astra' is directed by James Gray ('The Lost City of Z') and was written by Gray and Ethan Gross ('Fringe').