Universal negotiates to film Tom Cruise and NASA movie in space
The studios are holding meetings with the promoters to ensure the shooting conditions and the budget, which the most optimistic forecasts estimate at more than 170 million euros.
Universal Pictures studios, one of the great Hollywood companies, is in negotiations to carry out the filming of the movie that Tom Cruise, NASA and Elon Musk want to shoot in space.
According to an exclusive from the magazine 'Variety', later confirmed by specialized media, the studios are holding meetings with the promoters to ensure the shooting conditions and the budget, which the most optimistic forecasts estimate at more than 170 million euros.
If they reach an agreement, it would be the first film shot in space, specifically on the International Space Station, according to the project that NASA itself confirmed in May and that has the collaboration of Elon Musk (founder of SpaceX).
"We need popular media culture that inspires a new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA's ambitious plans a reality," US Aerospace Agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.
At the moment, and despite the information, Universal Pictures has not commented on the matter.
'Variety' also added that two live streaming platforms were interested in the ambitious idea but were scrapped because those involved prefer a theatrical release, although their idea is in such an early stage that there is no finished script on the table yet.
What is known is that in addition to starring Cruise, the film will feature filmmaker Doug Liman as director.
Liman, who previously worked with Cruise on the films "Al filo del tomorrow" (2014) and "El traficante" (2017), will also have to write the first draft of the script and will also appear as a producer.
For his part, Cruise was going to shoot the seventh installment of the action saga "Mission Impossible" this year.
But this film was one of the first Hollywood productions that had to interrupt its filming when in February it was alerted of the expansion of the coronavirus in Italy and the team was starting the recording in Venice.
