Tom Cruise wants to be the first actor to film in space



The idea is to take a rocket trip to the International Space Station.
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 Langely.

«We are developing a big project with Tom in which he is contemplated doing just that, going on a rocket to the space station and filming there. We hope that he becomes the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside the station,” Langely said in an interview with the British BBC.

It was the same actor who had the idea and is working on it with director Doug Liman, having already collaborated in 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.

“Most of the story takes place on Earth, but at a certain point the character needs to go out into space to fix things,” he explained.

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, he highlighted.

EFE

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