Tom Cruise is set to ‘hopefully’ become “the first civilian to do a spacewalk” outside of the International Space Station.
Donna Langley, head of Universal Pictures, revealed the news during a recent BBC interview in which the topic of the untitled $200 million Cruise space project came up.
Universal is backing the Doug Liman-directed feature, which plans to shoot scenes on the ISS, but Langley confirms the plan is to also have Cruise perform a spacewalk. She tells the broadcaster:
“Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world to space. That’s the plan. 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.”
Langley says most of the film takes place on Earth with Cruise as a down-on-his-luck guy who finds himself in the position of being the only person who could save Earth – necessitating him going to space to save the day.
Liman and Cruise are working with both NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX company on the project which marks the first time a Hollywood studio has ever filmed a narrative feature film in space.
Source: The BBC
