Tom Cruise’s Space Movie Will Make Him the ‘First Civilian to Do a Spacewalk Outside of the Space Station,’ Universal Boss Says - Variety

Tom Cruise volition “hopefully” go “the archetypal civilian to bash a spacewalk” extracurricular of the International Space Station erstwhile helium blasts disconnected to abstraction to sprout a caller enactment movie with manager Doug Liman. Donna Langley, the caput of Universal Pictures, teased arsenic overmuch during a caller BBC interview. Universal is backing the Cruise abstraction project, which reportedly carries a fund successful the $200 cardinal range. While it was already known the movie would sprout scenes connected the ISS, Langley said the program is to besides person Cruise execute a spacewalk.

“Tom Cruise is taking america to space. He’s taking the satellite to space. That’s the plan,” Langley confirmed to the BBC. “We person a large task successful improvement with Tom, that does contemplate him doing conscionable that. Taking a rocket up to the abstraction presumption and shooting and hopefully being the archetypal civilian to bash a spacewalk extracurricular of the abstraction station.”

Langley revealed that portion the movie volition nonstop Cruise to space, it “actually [mostly] takes spot connected Earth, and past the quality needs to spell up to abstraction to prevention the day.” The Universal chairwoman described Cruise’s quality arsenic “a down-on-his-luck feline who finds himself successful the presumption of being the lone idiosyncratic who could prevention Earth.”

Liman and Cruise antecedently collaborated connected films specified arsenic “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) and “American Made” (2017). Further crippled details astir the duo’s abstraction movie are being kept nether wraps, though they are moving with some NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. No Hollywood workplace has ever filmed a communicative diagnostic movie successful abstraction before.

“When a shaper proposes thing brainsick to you, like, let’s effort to sprout a movie successful outer space, and NASA and SpaceX motion on, and Tom Cruise signs on… you’re conscionable a small spot much receptive,” Liman told Thrillist past twelvemonth astir boarding the project.

Sources previously told Variety the film’s accumulation fund has been acceptable astatine $200 million. Cruise could gain determination betwixt $30 cardinal and $60 million, according to insiders. This would screen his services arsenic a shaper and star, and besides beryllium comprised of important first-dollar gross participation.