Nope. It's a Remo Williams sequel

Talk about a movie that can generate buzz without a big promotional budget. That plus they might save enough to make the flights cost back.

Does seem appropriate and a little surprising that SpaceX's first tourist flight isn't just some random billionaires. I figured Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban would share a rocket, and half of America would root against them.

Would be personally satisfying if Tom cruised off course and floated away to oblivion.

Definitely a launch I'll attend. This is great.

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Definitely a launch I'll attend. This is great.

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The rocket or the movie? Or both...

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TCTTS said:

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Knowing Cruise, they're going to have it blocked and rehearsed down to the second, and I could see them using those parabolic flights or something similar for practice. Still, I can't imagine the pressure to get this right, especially with that insane price tag. Wow. This is so crazy, but so damn cool.

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That makes sense given the circumstances. I only mentioned it because it was brought up when The Rewatchables did Edge of Tomorrow that Liman tossed a lot of footage and spent a lot of time rewriting the script on the fly. He definitely won't have that luxury this time. Tom and McQ do something similar with theM:I films where they plan the big set pieces and then fill in the rest of the story while they're shooting.

What are the odds that Tom goes up there and doesn't do a spacewalk? I think most people are expecting it so it would be disappointing if he doesn't, but I just don't know if that's something that NASA would sign off on since astronauts spend years training for them. I just want to see him replace the AE-35 unit that is going to go 100 percent failure within 72 hours.

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I listened to a podcast recently with Cameron Crowe where he talked about how obsessive Cruise was in his prep for even that one relatively "simple" shot in Vanilla Sky where Cruise's character drives into an empty Times Square, parks, gets out, and runs. Crowe said Cruise knew they only had a short window to pull it off, and that something like that had never been done before, so they practiced it for weeks, at Cruise's urging. And that wasn't even really a stunt, per se, but shows his level of dedication to a somewhat similar, pressure-filled, short-window-of-time situation. And I've heard the same about Cruise's stunt work for the Mission movies as well. Yeah, the stories themselves are definitely more on-the-whim, but the stunts/sequences themselves are highly coordinated and rehearsed for weeks, sometimes even months. And I picture whatever they're filming in space to be more "stunt"/Gravity-esque - perhaps like an extended, thirty-minute sequence - than something comprised of a bunch of story/scenes. I'm guessing only a portion of this movie is in space, not the whole thing. I could be wrong, though. Either way, I think Cruise bends Limon to his will, or they're absolutely on the same page from the jump, and have this planned, rehearsed, and conceived like nothing else before.

Lol both guess. I usually enjoy his movies.

Ha, man, I still have a soft spot for Vanilla Sky. It's an acquired taste for sure, but I've probably seen it at least 15 times. Crowe was a god to me after Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, and I couldn't help but fall for Vanilla Sky in the wake of those two.

Hahaha YES. So good. We absolutely need Tom Cruise running in space. It would the greatest culmination ever.

This will be a trip to ISS to film, right? In other words, not "just" a ride in a SpaceX capsule?

There's officially a PAM to the ISS in October 2021 on the FPIP, but the names are still TBD.
PAM = Private Astronaut Mission
FPIP = Flight Planning Integration Panel

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Ha, that Times Square scene is the only thing I remember about Vanilla Sky so all of that practice payed off.

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That and him ordering a shot of patron and a budweiser. That was my roommate's starter every time we went out. He called them his "specials." "What did you do last night?" "I don't know. Had a few specials and the rest is a blur."

Tom Cruise plans to take a rocket up to the International Space Station for his new film directed by Doug Liman, according to Universal chairman.

"The hope is...(he will be) the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station".

(source: https://t.co/wBk2Zoc9qH pic.twitter.com/9jhG4pdTlG

— Gavin (@gavinfeng97) October 6, 2022

any updates on this 18 months later?

Think this is for Edge of Tomorrow 2? He tweeted about it recently.. curious what films Cruise actually has lined up over the next 5 years or so...

Another victim of the pandemic/double strikes, unfortunately. Though it's apparently still happening and in development, just no one knows when.

As for Cruise's immediate schedule...

- He's still currently shooting Mission: Impossible 8, which he'll wrap at some point this year and is set for release next May.

- Then some fairly credible rumors have him shooting a remake of Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (which I've never seen) alongside Scarlett Johansson. Though it's rumored to start shooting in January, and Christopher McQuarrie is apparently set to direct, but seeing as McQuarrie will be busy wrapping M:I8 until next May, I don't see how that's possible.

- That said, in a nice change of pace, Cruise has also signed to star in Alejandro G. Inarritu's next film. Inarritu is the director of Birdman and The Revenant, and both he and Cruise have been seen recently globe trotting together/discussing the project, so it's more likely that movie is next for Cruise and not The Gauntlet.

Regardless, it sounds like Cruise's dance card is likely full through most of 2025, so the earliest the space movie could film is late 2025 or 2026.

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any updates on this 18 months later?

Think this is for Edge of Tomorrow 2? He tweeted about it recently.. curious what films Cruise actually has lined up over the next 5 years or so...

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nm, TCTTS beat me to it.

DP

6 months later - how does this prediction look now?