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Doug Liman To Direct Tom Cruise In Outer Space-Shot Movie Collaboration With Elon Musk & NASA

Doug Liman To Direct Tom Cruise In Outer Space-Shot Movie Collaboration With Elon Musk & NASA

deadline.com

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman will boldly go where no film director has gone before. Liman plans to accompany Tom Cruise on the action adventure film to be shot in outer space that is being mounted independently (for now) and involves Elon Musk’s Space X and NASA. Liman, who directed Cruise on the movies American Made and Edge of Tomorrow, and who separately directed such hits as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity, Go and Swingers, is eager to re-team on this first of its kind project, I’m told.

This is not some loose attachment. Liman and Cruise hatched this whole thing together, with Liman writing the first draft of the screenplay and producing along with Cruise. Deadline revealed on May 4 that Cruise was planning this feat, to actually travel to space in a craft to shoot the film, and the scoop hung out there until NASA confirmed its participation a day later.

 

[DESTROYA]

Will Tom also gather us around Volcanoes and drop hydrogen bombs on us?

 

[Arkam]

This would actually be amazing to if done. A feature film, filmed in space actually. Hell could be what Tom Cruise is known for in the future.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Mission Impossible: Gravity Blows

I think it would be hilarious if aliens first contact with Earth and humanity is stumbling on Tom Cruise filming a movie in space

 

[Arkam]

Mission Impossible: Gravity Blows

I think it would be hilarious if aliens first contact with Earth and humanity is stumbling on Tom Cruise filming a movie in space

Could all be part of that controlled alien unveiling that Tom Delong said.

Reminds me I still need to crack open "Sekret Machines"

 

[Punished Miku]

I think he's an amazing actor, and stuntman and I have nothing but respect for the guy.

He was strapped to the outside of a plane in Mission Impossible. Now he's going to outer space for real, for a movie. Pretty damn awesome honestly.

 

[Kenpachii]

Would put him on the map for sure for ages to come.

 

[bender]

I'd buy into Scientology if it meant I'd age like him.

 

[ManaByte]

I'd buy into Scientology if it meant I'd age like him.

 

[zeorhymer]

Elon is going to shoot Tom into space?

 

[bender]

It was a joke (mostly). I know how evil/crazy Scientology is and it's too late anyway. Damn you, old age!

 

[Azelover]

So it's no longer a huge secret?

 

[SirKicksalot]

Doug "Production Hell" Liman is not the guy you'd want to make a movie in space. Every movie of his is a nightmarish production that goes over budget, is delayed, rewritten, reshot and even has accidents on set. If he makes this one he's going to destroy the space station and fill the orbit with debris that will stop us from going to space for a thousand years.

Liman is in postproduction in the Lionsgate/BRON film Chaos Walking

Chaos Walking was shot in the second half of 2017, had awful test screenings, was partially reshot by Fede Alvarez for 15 million dollars in spring 2019 and is now scheduled for 2021.

 

[Rentahamster]

Cruise makes damn good sci-fi though

 

[triplestation]

tom cruise is impossible to not admire, his nut sack must be huge

 

[GeorgPrime]

This would actually be amazing to if done. A feature film, filmed in space actually. Hell could be what Tom Cruise is known for in the future.

Jeah. Or its written on his tombstone

 

[The Hamburglar]

Tom doesn’t need NASA. Tom ‘the cruise missile’ cruise can go to space solo.

 

[Brian Fellows]

Fuck off you cultist Hobbit.