Tom Cruise, Russia and a reality show on the International Space Station

If the astronauts on the International Space Station have ever felt lonely, until now and 400 kilometers from home, at the end of this year they will pray to God to return to those old days when they did not have to share. their bathroom, their table and their bunk. . Yes, because not only Hollywood and the heirs of Sergei Eisenstein are crazy to venture with their cameras out of Earth orbit but now too a reality show do the same.

Indeed, the company Space Hero, headed by Marty Pompadur, former head of News Corp Europe, announced that it would produce a multi-episode program with the international search for a space explorer. The chosen one will be rewarded with a training six months this will make him an astronaut and then they will launch him to the International Space Station (ISS), where will be in orbit for 10 days.

And the icing on the cake is that the casting will begin on April 12, to celebrate the 60 years in what Yuri Gagarin At the age of 27, he became the first man to orbit the Earth for the first time in a spacecraft.

The winner of reality It will be trained by the private space company Axiom for six months of the year 2022 and at the dawn of 2023 it will already travel to the ISS.
Those interested already have at their disposal the application of Space Hero to download and register.

Space Hero is looking for a TV network and distributor to partner with them for the first ever space reality TV show.

Impossible for others, not for Tom Cruise

Meanwhile, Tom Cruise is moving forward with preparations for his first filming on – also – the International Space Station. And you already anticipated that it will not be a new episode of the saga Impossible mission, which will premiere its seventh installment in the United States on July 7.

Anyway, let’s prepare the popcorn because we already know that since the day golden boy of Top Gun lent his voice to tell a 3D documentary about the Space Stationl, in 2002. In 2013, he felt comfortable with the astronaut’s diving suit Oversight, another mission to save the Earth.

He does not want to anticipate the plot of the film, but more than one imagines him in your own space walkI am outside the ISS. And they are shaking. His discussions with the directors are known because he is the number set for the waterfalls, despite the consequences.

In Mission Impossible 2, he jumped an apparently ropeless cliff and was lucky enough to be able to count it; in Mission Impossible Secret NationHe clings to the side of a plane taking off from the runway with his fingertips: a pebble has pierced his straitjacket; in Mission: Impossible – Ghost ProtocolEthan Hunt – his character – climbs the exterior of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building (he had a harness, but the edition erased it); and in 2017 he broke an ankle while jumping from one roof to another while Mission Impossible Fallout.

Roscosmos Time

The Russian Federal Space Agency, commonly known as Roscosmos, did not want to be left behind in the space film fury and also called for a casting. They looked for a Russian actress, amateur or professional, be encouraged to receive space training to star in the first feature film shot on the International Space Station.

The film, in principle, will be called Challenge (Challenge) and is a joint project of the Roscosmos State Corporation, Channel One and the Yellow, Black and White studio. They said the shoot would start in fall 2021 and, so far, there has been no confirmation, denial or postponement.

The most interesting thing about the Soviet project is that the actress will not only act but work effectively as an astronaut-researcher. He will be one more member of the crew and will have a voice, vote and rights like any other crew member. In other words, two roles – and salaries – in one.

“I have always dreamed, but to be myself in space at least with help someone do it. And then one day Dmitry Rogozin rang the bell and gave me this happy opportunity, ”said Konstantin Ernst, CEO of Channel One., Referring to the director of Roscosmos.

And concerning the casting, he said that the actresses will thus have “the opportunity to make your most romantic dreams come true and go to the stars, and at the same time, become a big international star “.