Tom Cruise Wants to Shoot New Movie in Actual Space

Tom Cruise is a man forever in search of the next movie spectacle. Not content with launching his 61 year-old frame from cliff tops while riding motorbikes in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, or flying an actual jet in Top Gun: Maverick, the actor aims to outdo all previous efforts with his next project.

The film, which doesn’t have a name yet, will make Cruise the first civilian to perform a spacewalk. He’s cooking it up in collaboration with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman, and with Universal stumping up a budget of around $200 million, it’s going to be one of the year’s biggest movies.

Cruise told Variety during Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s New York City premiere on Monday: "We've been working on it diligently and we'll see where we go.”

There’s not much more to reveal for a film still in the earliest stages of development, and with the SAG-AFTRA strike now in full flow, progress will have to pause.

Variety reported last year that, according to secret sources at Universal, the film would be "partially shot on the International Space Station,” with "additional footage... to be shot on a rocket."

Liman expanded on the film’s potential roadblocks - in particular, Tom Cruise’s insurance. "From the first conversations that we've had about the film... how you insure it has been a central part of the conversations," Liman told Collider last year.

"So, we wouldn't be talking about this movie if we hadn't figured out a way to navigate the insurance component. And [whether] you're talking about going to outer space, [or] you're talking about shooting in London in the heart of the pandemic, you know, insurance is gonna dictate whether that actually is possible."

If you want your Cruise fix earlier, check out our Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review roundup.