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[Darkmakaimura]

Tom Cruise Is Working With NASA to Film a Movie in Space

Tom Cruise's next film is taking him out of this world.

www.etonline.com

Tom Cruise's career has taken him all around the world -- and now it's taking him outside of it.

The 57-year-old actor will be making a movie at the International Space Station, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine confirmed on Twitter on Tuesday.

"NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station!" he wrote. "We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality."

Pretty cool. We need something new to bring in people to theaters. Actually filming a movie in actual real life space could be the next big schtick.

Edit: Tom Cruise not Ted.

 

[haxan7]

Does he even know what a rocket launch costs

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Does he even know what a rocket launch costs

Don't you need extensive training too?

All the filmmakers and actors will need to train, I imagine, at least a year or two and get in shape.

That's a lot of work and money and time.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Ted Cruz in Space would have been been so fun. :/

 

[haxan7]

Elon Musk is apparently involved

 

[Tesseract]

what is happening

 

[DragoonKain]

Tom is gonna do his own stunts in space with no grapple to prevent him from drifting into space. Because he's Tom fucking Cruise and that's just how he rolls.

 

[epicnemesis]

Ted Cruz is going to block Tom Cruise from partnering with NASA if they make a movie to fit chinas censors. This thread title is going to be applicable then.

 

[-Arcadia-]

I’ve never been more disappointed that something isn’t true.

 

[Havoc2049]

Lol at the title.

Tom DeLonge needs to get involved.

I wonder if they’ll use the same studio where they filmed the moon landing?

 

[haxan7]

I realized it was Tom Cruise like half a second after I opened the thread. You all need to learn to trust your intuition.

 

[triplestation]

man my head is BUMPIN

 

[-Arcadia-]

Can someone just photoshop this anyway and give me some closure?

 

[Compsiox]

It's going to be so gimmicky. Like a 2 minute scene in the ISS and then the rest of the movie will be CGI.

 

[nush]

Can someone just photoshop this anyway and give me some closure?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Jerry Maguire Goes Interstellar

 

[EverydayBeast]

Tom Cruise in Space with NASA could be a great thing, actors have to learn to stand their ground, I guess not just on Earth.

 

[Ikutachi]

Tom is gonna do his own stunts in space with no grapple to prevent him from drifting into space. Because he's Tom fucking Cruise and that's just how he rolls.

 

[Shizumapower]

Tommy C... my man.

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Halo is Back]

Gotta respect the hustle

 

[GeorgPrime]

After that movie... he will be a legendary actor or a dead one.

 

[Kenpachii]

flat earth documentairy confirmed

 

[Airola]

The big plot twist in the movie will be the reveal that space doesn't actually exist. That would be something! Going to space to film a movie that claims space doesn't exist! I'd pay money for that!

 

[Bloody Knuckles]

Dude is an absolute adrenaline junky and Im totally fine with that. Dude does his own stunts, mad respect for that and gives quality content

 

[DeepEnigma]

Don't you need extensive training too?

All the filmmakers and actors will need to train, I imagine, at least a year or two and get in shape.

That's a lot of work and money and time.

Imagine saying this about the Cruise Missile.

 

[freak of nature]

Although Tom is a manlet, this sounds interesting.

Subscribed.

 

[V1LÆM]

GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM.

THIS IS MAJOR TOM TO GROUND CONTROL.

 

[Benjamin_MFF]

Ha! Filmmakers, they aren't going to send any filmmakers up with Tom. They already have a RED camera in this ISS:

Back in 2018 we got 8k footage from space



They'll just reframe and crop the image in post to make it look "cinematic".
Tom's going up by himself

 

[V2Tommy]

Tom Cruise is really the only actor that takes his job seriously.

 

[synchronicity]

I'm going to space motherfuckers!

 

[Slings and Arrows]

They should film this where they shot the moon landings, phony space walks have come a long way since the 60s.

 

[TheGreatYosh]

Don't you need extensive training too?

All the filmmakers and actors will need to train, I imagine, at least a year or two and get in shape.

That's a lot of work and money and time.

We've all been in pools though.

 

[Tesseract]

cruise prolly built his own parabolic jumper

 

[Darkmakaimura]

We've all been in pools though.

I dunno my only pool was Radiance holy crap those were the days of SSI.

 

[teacupcopter]

You know people rip on Cruise but show me an action film recently he's in that hasn't been great fun.

 

[llien]

Does he even know what a rocket launch costs

Depends on the rocket. Souz rockets I think are in single digit millions. (fly on kerosene)

 

[Tesseract]

cruise is still the man

give 'em hell