Here’s why this is the decade of superstar astronaut movie roles

Oct 9 2019 by The Verge

 
Brad Pitt in Ad Astra. | Photo by Francois Duhamel / 20th Century Fox

In the recent science fiction film Ad Astra, Brad Pitt plays an astronaut, and the only surprising thing about it is that he hasn’t played one before. His Ocean’s Eleven ringleader George Clooney already went to space on film in Gravity and Solaris, and their co-star Matt Damon did in The Martian. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattison, Juliette Binoche,...

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