Director James Gray has revealed which classic movies influenced his next project, Armageddon Time, in a new interview. The Ad Astra and Lost City of Z helmer is currently in the early stages of production on his next movie. Back in June, we learned Armageddon Time had recruited some heavy-hitters, with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, and Oscar Isaac joining Cate Blanchett and Donald Sutherland on the casting front. Armageddon Time will tell a coming-of-age story based on Gray's own experiences growing up in Queens in the 1980s and attending the Kew-Forest School. Gray was …

Ad Astra, the epic sci-fi drama starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut searching the edge of the solar system for his missing father, faced an unusual amount of criticism for its many scientific inaccuracies. However, as director James Gray recently explained in an Instagram live interview with his Ad Astra producer Rodrigo Teixeira, realism was never the film’s goal. If you’ve not seen the film, I won’t spoil it for you, except to say that the movie is very internal and almost dream-like. There’s action scenes and sequences of extreme space peril, but it’…

Writer-director James Gray is assembling an impressive cast for his new movie Armageddon Time, as Oscar Isaac and Oscar winners Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Donald Sutherland have joined the starry ensemble, which also includes two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett. Armageddon Time is described as a coming-of-age film based on Gray's own childhood memories of growing up in Queens, New York in the mid-1980s. The period drama draws on Gray's time at the Kew-Forest School, a private school where Fred Trump served on the board and Donald Trump was once a …

The coronavirus pandemic may have slowed down Hollywood's day-to-day operations but it has been a busy month nonetheless for Cate Blanchett. Just last week, the two-time Oscar winner agreed to star in Eli Roth's adaptation of the popular video game Borderlands, and on Monday morning, Collider broke the news that Blanchett is in talks to join Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay's sci-fi satire Don't Look Up. But that's not all, folks! On the heels of our Don't Look Up story, Variety has dropped its own scoop that Blanchett is set …

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Ahead of its debut later this month in competition at the Venice Film Festival, 20th Century Fox's awards-contender Ad Astra has released a new trailer. This video goes above and beyond just trying to sell audiences on the movie by including commentary from star Brad Pitt and co-writer/director James Gray. It feels more like an early awards FYC than a commercial trailer meant for general audiences, but that's not a bad thing. In fact, if the central theme of Ad Astra is finding meaning in human connections, then having the creative team behind the film …

I don't know about you, but James Gray's sci-fi epic Ad Astra is one of my most anticipated films of the year. I mean, Brad Pitt doesn't just venture into space for anyone. I can't say I love any of Gray's films -- his Blood Ties script is probably my favorite -- but he hasn't made a bad one either. And hopefully, Ad Astra will be his best yet. Either way, the director has signed on to a new project as he'll step behind the camera for the indie drama Armageddon Time, it was …