After hanging from a helicopter, hanging onto the side of a wide-body aircraft taking off, climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa on the 123rd floor, Tom Cruise plans to perform another type of stunt. .. probably even more extreme. And totally new!
The Deadline site and NASA confirm that the 57-year-old American actor is currently preparing to shoot a film on board the International Space Station.
NASA boss US space agency Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter Tuesday: "We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make ambitious NASA projects a reality."
Undisputed star of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise is renowned for performing stunts himself in his action films for big shows. In terms of stunts, the actor has done almost everything, piloting fighter planes in Top Gun , helicopters, parachute jumps, car and motorcycle chases, not forgetting to climb facades of buildings ... All he was missing was the ultimate string to his bow: actually shooting action sequences in space.
A 3D documentary in space by James Cameron
It is also an old dream for Tom Cruise. In the early 2000s, director James Cameron had already offered him training to make him a space engineer. The duo had signed a contract with the Russians to be able to go to the International Space Station, aboard a Soyuz. It was then a question of shooting a documentary in 3D on board the ISS. Cruise was ready, but the project had finally been abandoned because it was too conceptual.
So this is the relaunched space race, but this time through the prism of the film industry. "To infinity and beyond!" as Buzz Lightyear would say in Toy Story ...
