Tom Cruise already has a date to shoot his movie in space in 2021
The actor will embark on this adventure with director Doug Liman in collaboration with Elon Musk, founder of Space X, and NASA
He is known for taking risks as the protagonist of the Mission Impossible action films and now, at 58 years old, Tom Cruise has decided to up the ante and face the most insane challenge to date to make a movie: travel to space.
As it has become known in recent months, the American actor, who will be the first in Hollywood to record off the ground, will climb aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and travel to the International Space Station next year, according to Space Shuttle. Almanac. Now, there is finally a date for the adventure.
As the US news portal Deadline has confirmed in recent hours, that space trip has been scheduled for October 2021 and it will not only be Tom Cruise, but also 55-year-old film director Doug Liman, project manager.
As revealed by Space Shuttle Almanac with a graphic of the upcoming space trips scheduled in the different countries, the aircraft that will carry the actor and the director will have veteran astronaut Michael López-Alegria as pilot and, for the moment, has a seat free for one more passenger, who could be occupied by someone else from the recording team.
Without yet having made public a provisional title or a minimum advance of what is going to be shot in space, it is known that the script is being written by Liman himself (who already coincided with Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow and Barry Seal: The Dealer) and that Christopher McQuarrie will act as supervisor of the project.
With the arrival of the @MBRSpaceCentre Astronauts @astro_hazzaa and @Astro_Alneyadi at @NASA_Johnson this week, can we assume they are the two Emirati crew members who will make the 6 mth stay on the #ISS in Oct 2022? pic.twitter.com/b2Sdr06hUc
— Space Shuttle Almanac (@ShuttleAlmanac) September 21, 2020
Another novelty that has recently become known is that this action film project (which has nothing to do with the Mission: Impossible universe) already has a first-rate production company, Universal Pictures. According to preliminary calculations, the film could cost about $ 200 million in the best of cases, and could become very expensive in case of any kind of unforeseen event during the recording.
This innovative project in which Tom Cruise will participate is being carried out, in part, thanks to the collaboration established with Elon Musk, founder of Space X and, therefore, owner of the aircraft that will take Cruise and the filmmaker to space, and NASA, as announced last May.
From what Jim Bridenstine, administrator of NASA, told on social networks, this space adventure will take place aboard the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth at about 408 km high.
