Report: SpaceX and Tom Cruise planning an outer space movie shoot

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WTF?! Tom Cruise is famous for doing his own, extreme stunts, but could one of his future movies be filmed in space? According to a new report, the Mission: Impossible actor is working with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA to try and get the feature off the ground.

The story comes from Deadline, which insists the incredible claim is real. The project is said to be in the very early stages, and that although it’ll be an action adventure movie, it won’t be another entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise.

 

Cruise, of course, is well known for performing action sequences that most actors would pass on to their stunt doubles. He performed scenes on the side of Dubai Skyscrapper the Burj Kha while 123 floors up and held on to the side of a plane as it took off in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

 

 

While the idea sounds pretty unbelievable, it might not be as far fetched as one might think. On May 27, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon rocket will carry two astronauts to the International Space Station as part of a NASA mission, proving that the company is able to carry humans into space and back safely.

 

Should the mission be a success, SpaceX will start performing more regular crew transportations between ISS and Earth, with tourist trips into space planned for next year. If all works out to plan, Cruise and a camera operator could be sent off planet in the seven-seat Crew Dragon to shoot the most authentic space-based action movie scenes ever.

 

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Tom Cruise will film his next Hollywood blockbuster on location—250 miles up in the air and orbiting the Earth once every 90 minutes.

 

The "Top Gun" star will fly through the stratosphere to shoot an as-yet-unknown film aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Tuesday.

 

The American space agency's director Jim Bridenstine confirmed the news on Twitter, saying he was excited that the move would "inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists" to work on space travel.

 

Cruise, 56, famously still does his own cliff-hanging, car-rolling stunts.

 

He gained his commercial piloting license after his role in Top Gun as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a hotshot US Navy pilot who has a dangerous and reckless flying style, and reportedly flew some aircraft in the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 classic due later this year.

 

But if his latest daring project goes ahead, Cruise will be the first Hollywood A-lister to appear onscreen from outside the planet's atmosphere.

 

Entertainment website Deadline Hollywood first reported rumours of the film shoot on the weekend, adding that tech mogul Elon Musk's SpaceX venture was attached to the project.

SpaceX is slated to launch astronauts to space from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade later this month aboard the Crew Dragon, which will dock with the ISS.

 

Musk and SpaceX have yet to confirm their involvement in the film venture, but Musk responded to Bridenstine's tweet to say the project "should be a lot of fun."

 

His firm has established itself as a leader in the private space sector with billions of dollars in funding from NASA since the late 2000s, and its rockets have been supplying cargo to the ISS since 2012.

 

SpaceX was one of three companies awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to build lunar landers, as part of efforts by the United States to return human beings to the moon.

 

Deadline Hollywood said there were few other details known about Cruise's movie project but reported it was not part of his box office hit franchise "Mission: Impossible."

 

The seventh film in that series is set to hit screens next year after production was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.

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