BRAD PITT AND JAMES GRAY TAKE A GIANT LEAP WITH ‘AD ASTRA’
Brad Pitt made the first move with James Gray.
In 1995, he saw Gray’s debut “Little Odessa” and decided to call up the young filmmaker behind the grim Brooklyn crime drama. They’ve been talking ever since — about films, life and working together. But it would take almost 25 years for the stars to finally align, fittingly, for an ambitious, original space odyssey called “Ad Astra” that opens in theaters nationwide Friday.
“It’s a gutsy film,” Pitt said last month. The 55-year-old both produced and stars in the story about an astronaut who
