Tom Cruise is going to be a freaking astronaut!
From Variety:
Tom Cruise will "hopefully" become "the first civilian to do a spacewalk" outside of the International Space Station when he blasts off to space to shoot a new action movie with director Doug Liman. Donna Langley, the head of Universal Pictures, teased as much during a recent BBC interview. Universal is backing the Cruise space project, which reportedly carries a budget in the $200 million range. While it was already known the movie would shoot scenes on the ISS, Langley said the plan is to also have Cruise perform a spacewalk.
"Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He's taking the world to space. That's the plan," Langley confirmed to the BBC. "We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that. Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station."
Tom Cruise is an actual madman.
You just know this had to be his idea.
"Oh, we're doing a space movie? Let's actually go to space on the space station. And while we're up there, why don't I walk around in space a little?"
Liman and Cruise previously collaborated on films such as "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014) and "American Made" (2017). Further plot details about the duo's space movie are being kept under wraps, although they are working with both NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX company. No Hollywood studio has ever filmed a narrative feature film in space before.
"When a producer proposes something crazy to you, like, let's try to shoot a movie in outer space, and NASA and SpaceX sign on, and Tom Cruise signs on… you're just a little bit more receptive," Liman told Thrillist last year about boarding the project.
Tom Cruise just can't be stopped.
If you can't wait for this next movie, you definitely need to go see the upcoming Mission Impossible movie which Tom Cruise has promoted in the most Tom Cruise way possible.
