Brad Pitt and James Gray have been trying to work together for some time, beginning when he was attached to The Lost City of Z (that ended up going to Charlie Hunnam), and then later for The Gray Man which never developed. But it's actually happening this time with Gray's sci-fi film, Ad Astra, and now Pitt has a co-star in Tommy Lee Jones.
Jones will play Pitt's father in the film about a slightly autistic space engineer who sets off on a one-way mission to Neptune to find out why his father's journey to find intelligent life there failed twenty years earlier. There's said to be a Heart of Darkness-type element to the story, which would be interesting to see Pitt try and portray.
All of this is coming together since Pitt and David Fincher's World War Z sequel still has some time before it's ready to roll. Gray will take advantage and begin shooting on Ad Astra this summer. [Deadline]
