Tom Cruise hopes to be part of a project filmed on the International Space Station, which will be directed by Doug Liman.
American Tom Cruise plans to travel to the International Space Station to become the first actor to shoot scenes for a movie outside of Earth, confirmed the president of the Universal production company, Donna Langley.
"We are developing a great project with Tom in which he is expected to do just that, go on a rocket to the space station and roll there. We hope that he will become the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside the station," he said. Langely in an interview with the British BBC.
It was Tom Cruise himself who had the idea and is working on it with director Doug Liman, having already worked on films such as 'Edge of Tomorrow' (2014) and 'American Made (2017), according to the executive.
"During the pandemic (Cruise) asked to do a Zoom call with us. He came on the call and said, guys, I have this great project," Langely described.
Tom Cruise in Space: what would the film be about?
Langely advanced some details of Tom Cruise's future film project. "Most of the story takes place on Earth, but at a certain point the character needs to go out into space to fix things," she said.
The board highlighted the challenges facing the film industry to continue attracting audiences to theaters and assured that "great visual effects" will not be enough.
The "bar is increasingly higher" for viewers to decide to go see a film at the cinema, instead of doing so at home, she highlighted.
The contract with Axiom
Tom Cruise's attempts to film in space have been reported since January of this year. So, Elena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, producers of the actor's next film set in space, signed an agreement to build a film studio connected to the International Space Station.
The more than 6 meter wide studio, called Space Entertainment Enterprise-1 (SEE-1), is scheduled to launch in December 2024 and will be the first entertainment studio in space.
The construction of SEE-1 will have the help of Axiom Space, and when it launches it will dock with the space company's station that is currently connected to the ISS.
On that occasion, SEE was also revealed as the production company behind Tom Cruise's next film in space. In 2020, NASA announced that it was working with the famous actor to launch a launch to the ISS.
