Universal boss Donna Langley offers an update on Tom Cruise's space-set movie. 'Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He's taking the world to space. That's the plan.'
Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairperson Donna Langley has stated the company is working to launch Tom Cruise into outer space to film a movie. The actor would tape just a segment of the film while suspended in weightlessness onboard the International Space Station.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY A certified skydiver, helicopter pilot, and world-accomplished daredevil, Cruise is known for forgoing a stuntman or CGI alternatives and taping the high-flying action himself. He famously strapped himself to the side of an ascending plane for a scene Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation and rode in fighter jets while filming Top Gun: Maverick. But breaching Earth's gravity and filming in space would be a first for Cruise, 60.
"Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He's taking the world to space. That's the plan. 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."
How Tom Cruise's Space Movie Would Change Filmmaking Preparation, launch, detachment from the booster stages, docking and returning to Earth are all extremely high stakes phases of any spaceflight, which are normally staffed by astronauts who have dedicated their lives to planetary science. But space tourism is becoming increasingly accessible as the rocketry is streamlined, and private space companies overtake NASA as the predominant source of launches.
Though the film, if actually shot in space, would be a massive achievement for Hollywood, Tom Cruise himself, and NASA, it would not be the first feature filmed in space. In 2021, two Russian actors launched to the International Space Station on board and taped a feature about a surgeon who must operate on their fellow cosmonaut before returning to Earth.
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