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- Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote in his Aeneid: " sic itur ad astra " ('thus one journeys to the stars') and " opta ardua pennis astra sequi " ('desire to pursue the high hard to reach] stars on wings').
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Jun 7, 2020 · What Happened At The End Of Ad Astra. Father and son clash on the outskirts of Neptune, as Roy, disobeying orders from his superiors at U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), travels out to...
Plot. In the early 22nd century, mysterious power surges threaten to destabilize human civilization. Major Roy McBride is informed that the surges have been traced to the "Lima Project", a space station in orbit around Neptune, sent twenty-nine years earlier to search for intelligent life.
AwardDate Of CeremonyCategoryRecipientsDecember 15, 2019Best High WorkStunt Team of Ad AstraAd AstraDecember 15, 2019Best ScoreMax RichterDecember 15, 2019Best Visual EffectsAllen Maris, Jedediah Smith, Guillaume ...Sep 24, 2019 · In an interview, Gross tells Inverse that he first heard the words “ad astra” a decade earlier while listening to a song by the progressive rock band The Dear Hunter.
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Ad Astra is set in a somewhat ill-defined “near future” where humans have slightly more advanced technology (the look and feel of which was influenced by NASA during production) but a similarly functioning society. In other words, we have commercial travel to the Moon, and Mars, and the possibility of travel to Pluto, but geopolitics are roughly si...
It’s a little unclear in the film, but it seems like the oft-cited SpaceCom seems to be a corporation with military elements as well as a public-facing travel agency. Within Ad Astra, it’s the driving force determined to track down Tommy Lee Jones’ Clifford McBride, and the employer of most (if not all) of the astronauts encountered in the film.
While headed to a launch on the dark side of the Moon, Roy and Colonel Pruitt (Donald Sutherland) and their escorts are attacked by pirates, who were previously mentioned as a danger in disputed territories of the lunar body. However, it is slightly unclear what these pirates get out of their (presumably very costly) activities. Protection money? W...
While en route to Mars the ship carrying Roy McBride picks up a distress call, which they investigate. Unfortunately, on the ship in question the mystery of the missing crew is answered when Roy and Captain Tanner (Donnie Keshawarz) are attacked by floating, blood-crazed baboons. While not explicitly stated, it seems clear that the baboons were the...
The driving force of the film is Roy’s journey to Mars, where over several attempts he sends a message via secure laser-link to try and get a response from his missing father, Roy McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). In practice, this means just reciting from a pre-prepared statement in a room through an ordinary microphone over and over again, which rather ...
At the conclusion of Ad Astra, after finding and losing his troubled father and destroying his lab to prevent the Surges, Roy McBride manages to (sort of) bodyboard his way through an asteroid field to return to his ship. Later, we see him back on Earth in a coffee shop, apparently attempting to reconnect with his ex-wife (Live Tyler) after acknowl...
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Sep 23, 2019 · It’s a cynical viewpoint born from Earth’s colonization of the moon, complete with Subway restaurants, casinos and photo booths — expensive “experiences” all in the service of distracting...
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Sep 18, 2019 · When we first meet him, he literally falls to Earth as a result of one of those electrical storms, which – Roy is told – come from cosmic-ray bursts near Neptune. That's where Project...
Sep 18, 2019 · Was the professional but aloof father that Roy knew just a facade? Was there something darker churning underneath, or did space somehow change Clifford for the worse?
