Donald Sutherland cast in James Gray's 'Ad Astra'

Veteran actor Donald Sutherland has come on board James Gray's sci-fi epic "Ad Astra".

The 82-year-old star has joined Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones and Ruth Negga in the upcoming movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The project is described as an adventure film about a man's (Pitt) journey across a lawless and unforgiving solar system to find his missing father, a renegade scientist who poses a threat to all of mankind.

Gray will direct the feature film from a script he co- wrote with Ethan Gross.