Films We’re Waiting For
The Astronaut - Written & Directed by Jess Varley
In Theaters, October 17, 2025

Some stories begin when the mission ends.

After crash-landing off the Atlantic coast, astronaut Sam Walker (Kate Mara) is found alive but altered. Quarantined under NASA supervision, she faces not just recovery, but revelation. As strange phenomena intensify, The Astronaut asks a question every explorer eventually confronts:

What if the thing you discovered… discovered you back?

Directed by Jess Varley and starring Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna, Ivana Milicevic, Macy Gray, and newcomer Scarlett Holmes, The Astronaut looks less like a sci-fi spectacle and more like a descent into the quiet terror of the unknown.

At Alpha Chromatica, we love stories that remind us the boundary between observation and obsession is razor-thin.

And sometimes, when you stare long enough into the void, it starts to breathe.