Tom Cruise teams up with Nasa to shoot action film in space
- US action star reportedly working with Tesla boss Elon Musk
- Project, confirmed on Twitter by Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine, would be first feature film shot in space
Action star Tom Cruise is working on a movie shot in outer space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said on Tuesday.
“NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station!,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.
“We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality,” Bridenstine added.
He gave no details but the tweet followed a report in Hollywood trade outlet that Cruise was working with Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk to make what would be the first feature film to be shot in space.
The proposed action adventure is in its early stages, Deadline reported on Monday.
Representatives for Cruise, 57, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The Mission: Impossible star is renowned for his daredevil films and for doing his own stunts.
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He flew fighter planes for the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, hung off the side of a plane as it took off in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation in 2015 and climbed Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper – the tallest building in the world – for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
Filming on Mission: Impossible 7 was put on hold in February as the coronavirus epidemic took off in Italy. The disease later led to a worldwide shutdown of Hollywood film and television production and the closure of cinemas.
