Tom Cruise Could Be 1st Actor To Do Movie In Space & Do Space Walk If Project Is Greenlit

Tom Cruise could beryllium the archetypal actor ever to movie successful space! The Top Gun: Maverick star, 60, is progressive successful a transportation with The Bourne Identity manager Doug Liman connected the unnamed movie per Universal Studios. “I deliberation Tom Cruise is taking america to space, he’s taking the satellite to space…[and could be] the archetypal civilian to bash a abstraction locomotion extracurricular of the abstraction station,” UFEG Chairman Donna Langley said successful an interrogation according to BBC News. “That’s the plan. We person a large task successful improvement with Tom … Taking a rocket up to the Space Station and shooting,” she added.

Donna besides offered details astir the film’s storyline. “[It would involve] the quality [going] up to abstraction to prevention the day”, she added, noting that they would sprout connected the International Space Station. Most of the story, however, would beryllium acceptable connected earth.

Tom Cruise waves to crowds astatine a premiere for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’. (Ahn Young-joon/AP/Shutterstock)

The determination would beryllium past making, but besides successful enactment with Tom’s nonrecreational accomplishments — peculiarly with what he’s achieved with regards to his ain stunt enactment successful the Mission: Impossible series arsenic spy Ethan Hunt. In an outtake from manager Christopher McQuarrie, helium adjacent dangled from an airborne biplane. Back successful 2017, Tom unluckily injured himself with portion performing a rooftop leap — slamming into a cement partition mid-stunt.

At the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the New York autochthonal recalled doing his first-ever stunt arsenic a child. “I deliberation I was astir 4½ years old, and I had this doll, and you propulsion it up successful the aerial and a parachute comes down. I played with this thing, and I’d propulsion it disconnected a tree, and I was like, ‘I truly privation to bash this’,” helium remembered during a sheet treatment with writer Didier Allouch per PEOPLE magazine.

“I retrieve taking the sheets disconnected my bed, and I would necktie a enactment … and I climbed up to the eave, and I got up to the roof. I looked and my parent was successful the room — she had 4 kids — and I jumped disconnected the roof,” helium went on. “It’s that infinitesimal erstwhile you leap disconnected the extortion and you go, ‘This is not gonna work. This is terrible. I’m gonna die.’ And I deed the crushed truthful hard. Luckily, it was wet. I don’t cognize however it happened, but I figured retired aft that my look went past my feet arsenic my ass deed the ground. And I saw stars successful the daytime for the archetypal time, and I retrieve looking up, going, ‘This is precise interesting.'”

Ultimately, that infinitesimal arsenic a youngster inspired Tom to instrumentality connected the situation of doing his ain stunts aboriginal on. “Now, present I americium connected a movie acceptable … but I was the kid who would ascent to the rafters oregon ascent the tallest tree. I wanted that, I wanted to bash that, and however bash I make these skills and marque it portion of the communicative and character?” helium besides said. “Even if I wasn’t moving connected a movie, I was studying film, I was pushing myself to larn antithetic skills. I was like, ‘I’m going to enactment this successful a movie 1 day,'” helium added.