posted 05-04-2020 08:52 PM               

...Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX are working on a project with NASA that would be the first narrative feature film – an action adventure – to be shot in outer space. It's not a "Mission: Impossible" film and no studio is in the mix at this stage... But this is real, albeit in the early stages of liftoff.

posted 05-05-2020 02:29 PM               

NASA is excited to work with Tom Cruise on a film aboard the International Space Station! We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA's ambitious plans a reality.

Should be a lot of fun!

posted 06-22-2020 07:51 PM               

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Originally posted by mikepf:
But why oh why did it have to be Tom Cruise?

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posted 07-23-2020 12:24 PM               

Sources said the production budget has been set at $200 million in the most optimistic projections. Cruise could earn somewhere between $30 million and $60 million, according to insiders...

To call the film an investment on Universal's part would be an understatement. Cruise must still finish production on the latest "Mission: Impossible" film, which was stalled thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, before he heads directly into a seventh installment of the Paramount franchise.

Given his production schedule and what several insiders familiar with the project noted as considerable prep time for the cinematic feat, 58-year-old Cruise could be well over 60 by the time he straps into the SpaceX Dragon vessel and jets to the ISS to make his call time on set.

posted 07-30-2020 01:59 PM               

What did Universal Pictures execs require to commit to liftoff of the first ever narrative feature film to shoot in outer space? According to sources, all it took was an exuberant Zoom call with Tom Cruise, director Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie. They pitched the picture with no script (Liman is writing it), and came away with a production commitment around $200 million.

Sources said that SpaceX's Elon Musk will be a partner in the project and the expectation is that is that McQuarrie — Cruise's writer/director on the "Mission: Impossible" films — will have a ground control role as story advisor and producer alongside Cruise and Liman.

posted 02-23-2021 08:34 AM               

And the first crew to fly with Axiom Space includes 71-year-old Larry Connor and both Michael Lopez-Alegria and Eytan Stibbe, who will be 63.

posted 10-08-2022 06:46 PM               

Langely — who is the first British woman to run a major American film studio — added she hopes Cruise will be "the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station."

posted 10-08-2022 06:52 PM               

NASA is not allowing spacewalks for the next two private astronaut missions in 2023-24.

posted 04-02-2024 09:27 AM               

According to business filings, SEE was incorporated in Britain in August 2020 as "Space Fighting League" and changed its name last year to Space Entertainment Enterprise. The company has not disclosed any financial information and has Dmitry and Elena Lesnevsky as its sole directors.

The SEE release also claimed that Dmitry and Elena Lesnevsky "are producing the first ever Hollywood motion picture filmed in outer space," linking to a page on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website named "Untitled Tom Cruise/SpaceX Project." That page lists the Lesnevskys as producers along with actor Tom Cruise and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, among others.