Movie productions are going to space, but what does that mean for lower-budget space films?
Although Tom Cruise won’t be a part of the first movie to film in space, the actor will “hopefully” become “the first civilian to do a spacewalk” outside of the International Space Station.
The head of Universal Pictures, Donna Langley, teased in a recent interview with BBC that Cruise’s $200 million space project is going to be one of the first few movies to shoot in space, and is planning for Cruise to perform a spacewalk.
“Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s talking the world to space,” Langley confirmed to the BBC. “We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that. Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”
NASA announced two years ago that Tom Cruise’s upcoming action adventure with NASA and SpaceX was trying to be the first film crew to make it to space, but Russian director Klim Shipenko’s The Challenge beat Cruise to the punch.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
