This is how James Gray rediscovered his love for filmmaking after Ad Astra.
James Gray is an incredibly talented filmmaker. Gray doesn’t have a problem taking big risks in his stories, often tackling heavy themes that involve familial conflict and death. His Shakespearean levels of storytelling are what make Gray a great filmmaker in the independent film circle.
However, there is one film in the director’s filmography that has film fans split. Ad Astra was the filmmaker’s biggest risk to date, and while the sci-fi epic earned some great reviews, the audiences struggled to find empathy for the emotional space family drama.
Ad Astra is one of those films that flew in and out of the theaters without much notoriety, and the film is regarded as one of the low points in the director’s career, according to Gray. The reason Gray was disappointed with the film doesn’t have to do with its box office success, but for another reason that made the director want to step away from filmmaking.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
