Tom Cruise will fly to space to shoot his record-breaking new film project.
With the help of Elon Musk, the Mission: Impossible actor, 58, will make the trip with director Doug Liman to film scenes for the currently unnamed movie.
As reported by Space Shuttle Almanac, Cruise and Liman will travel to the International Space Station in the Axiom Space Crew Dragon capsule – owned by Musk’s SpaceX company – in October 2021.
Tom Cruise is confirmed for what’s probably his most daring mission yet.
It seems the Hollywood star, 58, will be on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on its scheduled October 2021 trip to the International Space Station, according to Space Shuttle Almanac.
Tom Cruise’s plan to make a movie on board the International Space Station is set for October 2021 as Hollywood star gets first tourist seat in SpaceX Dragon Crew
As reports suggested by NME.COM, the Space Shuttle Almanac tweeted out a graph of the upcoming planned to launch to the ISS complete with crew manifests.
Aboard the first tourist trip, the schedule notes, will be Cruise and director Doug Liman, 55.
NASA and Space Shuttle veteran Michael Lopez-Alegria will be the pilot on the trip and there is one, as yet unfilled, tourist place available in the new four-person Crew Dragon.
It had been announced earlier this year that Cruise and Liman had teamed up with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and NASA to make a movie aboard the ISS.
Back in May, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted: ‘NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station!’
He explained: ‘We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality.’
This isn’t the first time that Cruise has had these talks. Nearly two decades ago, Cruise was in discussions with James Cameron, the director best known for Avatar, Titanic, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Cameron revealed that in a 2018 interview with the magazine Empire: “I actually talked to [Cruise] about doing a space film in space, about 15 years ago.
“I had a contract with the Russians in 2000 to go to the International Space Station and shoot a high-end 3D documentary there. And I thought, ‘S–t, man, we should just make a feature.’ I said, ‘Tom, you and I, we’ll get two seats on the Soyuz, but somebody’s gotta train us as engineers.’ Tom said, ‘No problem, I’ll train as an engineer.’ We had some ideas for the story, but it was still conceptual.”
That never came to fruition unfortunately, but Cruise clearly hasn’t given up on the idea.
Cruise has previously narrated the short documentary Space Station 3D — the first IMAX 3D production in space — which is one of several documentaries that have shot in space.