In orbit …
Very risky business
Not only is Tom Cruise planning to shoot a film while circling the Earth at the International Space Station, but one of the project’s producers, Space Entertainment Enterprise, hopes to establish a studio there by 2024. “The site will host films, television, music and sports events — although on-site audience capacity is yet to be determined — as well as content creators who want to develop, produce, record, broadcast and livestream 250 miles above Earth,” reported The Guardian. The low-orbit facility will be called SEE-1.
Cruise’s movie won’t be the space station’s first. A Russian film crew had a 12-day shoot at the I.S.S. in October for The Challenge, “about a surgeon who has to operate on a sick cosmonaut in space because his medical condition prevents him from returning to Earth to be treated,” according to the newspaper.
