That’s the premise of Ad Astra, the next film by acclaimed writer-director James Gray, with Tommy Lee Jones recently signing on to play the vanished astronaut.
With both Pitt and Jones onboard for the movie, it’s probably not a bad idea to put Ad Astra on the award season fast track, either.
Surely, Jones will find more to keep him awake in this movie than he did in Jason Bourne.
Pitt is tasked with finding his missing father and discovering what happened to the original mission, putting Ad Astra solidly in the crosshairs of Apocalypse Now and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.