Los Angeles, July 14 – Hollywood star Tom Cruise has been “working diligently” on his planned movie spacewalk.
The 61-year-old actor was previously revealed to be working with his “Edge of Tomorrow” director Doug Liman on a film set outside of the Earth’s surface, and he’s confirmed the project going ahead, though there isn’t a production start date set yet, reports aceshowbiz.com.
He told Variety: “We’ve been working on it diligently and we’ll see where we go.” Movie bosses revealed last year it was hoped the “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” star would make history by being blasted into space for the film.
Universal Pictures chair Dame Donna Langley told the BBC: “We have a great project in development with Tom that does contemplate him taking a rocket to the Space Station. And hopefully he will become the first civilian to do a space walk outside of the International Space Station. He will play a down-on-his-luck guy who finds himself in the position of being the only person who could save Earth.”
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Plans for the movie first emerged in 2020 with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA both involved in the project. Doug revealed in 2021 that he has “more confidence” about making a movie in space after shooting “Locked Down” in a deserted London amid the pandemic.
‘The Bourne Identity’ director said: “It connects to ‘Locked Down’ because the same producer who a year ago came to me and said how would you like to try to shoot a movie in outer space? That’s PJ van Sandwijk, and he’s the same person who said to Steve Knight and myself on July 1, what about you guys writing a movie for us to shoot in September? But here’s the thing.
“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 when that same producer says I got another crazy idea, and that became ‘Locked Down’.”
