Tom Cruise's subsequent mission might make historical past. If the plans for an upcoming movie come by means of, he would fly to area to movie the second the place he helps save the planet.
Donna Langley, chairman of Common Movie Leisure Group, informed the BBC in an interview final week that the 60-year-old "Mission Unimaginable" and "Prime Gun" actor will probably be "taking the world to area."
"That is the plan. We've got an excellent challenge in improvement with Tom that does ponder him doing simply that," she stated, "taking a rocket as much as the area station and capturing and hopefully being the primary civilian to do a spacewalk outdoors of the area station."
She stated the movie request got here from Cruise straight and that he's in shut collaboration with director Doug Liman, who beforehand labored with Cruise in 2014's "Fringe of Tomorrow" and can be recognized for "The Bourne Identification" franchise, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Jumper."
"Through the pandemic, he requested for a Zoom name with us and received onto the decision and stated, 'Guys, I've this nice challenge and right here it's,'" Langley recalled within the interview.
The title and particulars of the movie haven't been introduced, however Langley stated nearly all of the story will happen on Earth earlier than Cruise's character "must go as much as area to avoid wasting the day."
The challenge was first confirmed in 2020 by NASA's then-director Jim Bridenstine. Deadline reported at the moment that Elon Musk's SpaceX was additionally going to collaborate on the movie.
House Leisure Enterprise introduced in January this 12 months that it will work with Axiom House to construct a content material and leisure studio and "multi-purpose area" area station module. The enterprise, referred to as SEE-1, is deliberate to launch in late 2024 and could be linked to the Axiom Station, a industrial module deliberate for the Worldwide House Station.
Final 12 months, Russian actress Julia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko spent 12 days aboard the Worldwide House Station engaged on the first characteristic movie shot in area, with Peresild enjoying s a physician making an emergency home name in orbit.