Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Kudos to this permanent A list mostly movie actor for taking a movie that had to delay its premiere because it needed so much work and doing some reshoots he could have blown off per his contract.

He made it happen and now the movie is decent.

It feels the same as countless other movies which feature the same type premise, but at least it doesn’t suck any longer.

Brad Pitt

Ad Astra

Brad Pitt says Ad Astra is ‘the most challenging film’ he’s done, amid delays and tweaked ending

“Fly me to the moon” this was not.

With his long-awaited Ad Astra finally ready for liftoff, Brad Pitt is opening up about the travails he and director James Gray faced trying to bring the latter’s mysterious spacefaring adventure to the big screen.

“This has been the most challenging film I have ever worked on,” the star told a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, per Variety, where the sci-fi epic is set to premiere Thursday.

Among the issues plaguing Ad Astra were various post-production delays thanks to Disney’s merger with 20th Century Fox, the studio that originally backed the film, which nearly landed it in a black hole without a release date.

Then there were the marketing challenges. A heady exploration on the nature of masculinity and human existence, the flick finds Pitt playing astronaut Roy McBride, who embarks on a voyage across the solar system to discover the source of a dangerous power surge that threatens humanity. He also hopes to locate his astronaut father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, who went missing on a mission to Neptune 10 years earlier and may not want to be found. What Roy uncovers could well end up altering humankind’s relationship to the cosmos.

Such adult themes are more in line with sci-fi classics like 2001: A Space Oddyssey and Interstellar than, say, Star Wars or Marvel blockbusters, posing a test for the marketeers at Disney.

“The story … is so delicate, and any clip of a frame too early or music cue or voice-over could easily tip the thing over or be too much or be too obvious,” said Pitt. “It was a constant effort just to try to maintain this balance and try to keep this story unfolding in a very subtle and delicate way.” – Source


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