He’s taken a lot of g’s, traveled on the wing of a plane, did spins in a helicopter. What was dangerous to Tom Cruise? Go on a spacewalk! That’s what the actor in Doug Liman’s action movie must do.
This was announced on Wednesday to the BBC by Donna Langley, director of Universal Pictures. Tom Cruise “hopefully” will be “the first civilian to spacewalk” from the International Space Station (ISS).
“Take a rocket to the ISS”
Enough to surpass the Russians, who shot the first movie in space in October 2021. But without leaving the ISS. Because if Tom Cruise’s project to shoot in space had been known since 2020, and was going to precede that of the Russians, this space walk notably spices it up.
The Russian team shot their movie, The challenge, in 12 days aboard the ISS. This film, directed by Klim Chipenko, featured a doctor (Ioulia Peressild) whose mission was to save a cosmonaut.
“Tom Cruise is taking us into space. He’s taking the world into space. That’s the idea,” Donna Langley told the BBC.
“We have a big project in the works with Tom that requires him to do just that. Take a rocket to the space station and fire it up and hopefully be the first civilian to spacewalk outside of the space station.”
“The only person who can save the Earth”
But if this film with a budget of 200 million dollars, according to variety, is to take viewers into space, the film will take place mainly on Earth. “Then the character has to go to space to save the world,” explained the president of Universal. A role that fits perfectly with Tom Cruise, that “unfortunate guy who finds himself in the position of being the only person who can save the Earth.”
The actor has already shot under the direction of Doug Liman, in the movies the era of tomorrow in 2014, and Barry Seal: American Traffic in 2017. The duo will work for this film in collaboration with NASA and Space X, Elon Musk’s company.
Source: BFM TV
