I can’t be alone in thinking that Brad Pitt has lost some of his star power.

There was that rather odd GQ interview from a few years back (you remember the photos), and the fact that his divorce from Angelina Jolie became so messy was a PR disaster didn’t do him any favours.

Still, he’s chugging along and starring in blockbusters, with his latest effort being the sci-fi Ad Astra, directed by James Gray.

(Nothing to do with the private school that Elon Musk built for his kids, before you ask.)

According to the Verge:

The film follows Pitt as he attempts to find his father who went missing while on a mission to discover alien life. In the intervening years, Earth has started suffering from something called “the surge,” which may or may not have something to do with Pitt’s father’s experiments with a “highly classified material” that has the power to destroy the solar system.

Sounds spicy. Trailer time:

That actually looks like it might be OK, although it’s not receiving anywhere near as much buzz as Pitt’s other recent starring role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Ad Astra hits cinemas on September 20 over in the US.

[source:verge]