James Gray Says Fox Stretched ‘Ad Astra’ and It Wasn’t His Movie Anymore!
- James Gray is spilling the tea on ‘Ad Astra’.
- He says 20th Century Fox changed his movie!
- It got longer than he wanted.
Okay, so remember that super cool space movie ‘Ad Astra’ with Brad Pitt? The one with the moody, almost dreamlike aesthetic? Well, director James Gray is saying that the movie we all saw wasn’t really *his* movie.
He’s just spoken out at Cannes, and wow, he did not hold back! He told Brut that 20th Century Fox took his cut and stretched it out, making it longer than he intended. Imagine pouring your heart into something, and then it gets turned into something else!
Gray feels like the studio basically took the film away from him and made it longer, changing its whole vibe. He said it would have been a “very different movie” if he’d had his way. We totally get wanting your artistic vision to shine through, you know?
Our Take
It’s always a bit of a bummer when directors feel like their work gets messed with by studios. We love a movie that feels like a true expression of the filmmaker’s vision. It makes us wonder what we missed out on with ‘Ad Astra’!
