Brad Pitt's sci-fi film 'Ad Astra' to release in January 2019

Hollywood star Brad Pitt's science-fiction movie "Ad Astra" is set to hit the theaters on January 11, 2019.

James Gray has directed the movie from a script he co- wrote with Ethan Gross, reported Variety.

Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Jamie Kennedy, and Donald Sutherland are also starring in "Ad Astra."

Pitt is playing a man who journeys across the solar system in search of his missing father, a dangerous renegade scientist. Jones has been cast as Pitt's father.

Pitt is also producing with Plan B partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.

The shooting for the movie started in August in the area around Santa Clarita, California.