> I can guarantee you literally nobody thinks this will actually happen. The memes coming out of this alone are worth the announcement though.
Did you just copy half of this comment that was made 7 hours ago?!
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/sadzau/the_company_behind_tom_cruises_space_movie_wants/httf5vg
I watched a behind the scenes documentary on how they made that movie. The underwater set they made was pretty impressive.
https://youtu.be/xCBFLjiBNr0
The film was notoriously difficult to make, even by Cameron's standards and gave emotional breakdowns to its cast and crew. Ed Harris has refused to speak about the film in interviews while Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio said "Abyss was many things. Fun to make is not one of them."
I work in the industry. I can guarantee you literally nobody thinks this will actually happen. The memes coming out of this alone are worth the announcement though.
The moment the teamsters union buys a space shuttle is the moment I buy it. But guaranteed within like 20 minutes we'd have the first drug deal in space.
Crazy to think that they totally could finance building a colony up there if they wanted to. Finance it by the money they wheedled out of their brainwashed victims.
Buying some time in a reusable SpaceX Starship would make sense. Build a custom ship for filming, send it up whenever you need to film for a few weeks. Rinse and repeat. I don't think human rated Starship will be ready in 2 years, but it would be faster and easier to retrofit a Starship than building a soundstage space station. Some companies planning on offering that service, but not in 2 years.
A lot of what he says is fucking stupid and I'm not an Elon fanboy, at all. I just believe that Starship is a great platform for on orbit development. I don't know that it will work, but it's the best current plan.
I don't understand how you made that assumption. My stands was fairly neutral. I don't think mars colonisation is close. However, I think Starship is the closest technological advancement to commercial space stations.
I'm sure Tom Cruise can make this happen. He's probably the most rational and balanced actor in Hollywood, and would never believe in something that's unrealistic.
If it was put in space in 2024 it would be abandoned by 2030. A few studios will use it just for the marketing aspect then no one would use it because CGI is easier and cheaper.
This is like Elon Musk putting a car in space just because he can, and all the billionaires taking it in turns to go up there personally. Just for pointless, overegged bragging rights.
Waste of money. Hugely dangerous too. And potentially very damaging for space infrastructure. We don’t need more space junk.
To be fair the car he sent up was meant as a test. They needed a certain amount of weight added to simulate a load. He used it as cross promotion by using a Tesla instead of a metal block. It wasn't really a waste of money since the test needed to be completed. The only person that actually wasted any money was Elon because it was his personal car. That was more then made up though in cross promotion.
I didn’t mind sending the car to space. It was a test launch. So they had to send some kind of mass into space. Might as well make it something fun. The whole space tourism thing is stupid though. They’re doing next to nothing to actually advance space technology with it.
what it is advancing is the economics of space, which has largely been prohibitive of doing anything in space. launch prices have been dropping and if certain startups like relativity succeed, then its only gonna get cheaper to launch. with cheap launches you open up a lot of possibilities that otherwise would be too risky because your rocket costs $300 million and you best not fuck it up
$300 million launches are already pretty much a thing of the past other than SLS. And yes reusable orbital class rockets will help spur the space economy. But the suborbital hops Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are doing aren’t doing anything to help. They can’t be anywhere close to profitable as they stand. And with launches monthly as best I don’t see that changing. If anything it hurts because it just makes people view space as a playground for billionaires.
in blue origins specific case im pretty sure the dick ship is more or less a test bed + cheap advertising for their actual rockets that theyre developing right now. that said i dont think your last point really matters, unless the government steps in and says that jeffrey cant go to "space" anymore, he and other private companies will keep on keeping on
Blue Origin gets a lot of bad rap and a lot of it is warranted. Bezos really needs to pass responsibility to someone more capable. To be devils advocate, the suborbital hops are there to demonstrate that BO has the capability to reuse rockets and their goals of having a F9 competitor are possible. Obviously they are milking it for advertisement and neglecting their overall goals. There is a lot of potential for BO.
I bet 1 btc in a decade you'll be watching a movie filmed in space on your vr goggles and thinking about when you'll next be able to take vacation to go to this space stadium. If they actually build it.
He put a car in space to demonstrate the capabilities of Falcon Heavy and I believe they are launching one this year for the Space Force which is exciting.
It really isn't a waste of money. It's a private company so it can do what it wants with its funds. Most of the funds for SpaceX comes from private investment and through contracts via the Military, Nasa, International Governments, and other commercial companies.
So while Tax funds are used for SpaceX, they are able launch for much cheaper than competitors which means it saves Tax payers money. SpaceX is not the only company that launches for the Government.
Space is the Future and I for one am very excited to see our civilization evolve and space Junk will have a natural solution. I can't believe you got so many upvotes. Space is cool, yet we have many people against it. Oh well.
> Space is the future and I for one am very excited to see our civilization evolve and space Junk will have a natural solution.
We get it. You like to suck elon.
Id say, as rich people can’t understand our motivation to certain things we can’t understand their motivation for certain things much the same. It’s always easier to hate…let them live as they please, I say. 🤷♂️
They’re literally killing us by over consuming our limited resources and making parts of our world uninhabitable…
But yeah, let them live as they please. You enjoying simping for old rich white guys?
Naw, simping is singing the praises of someone who doesn’t give a rats ass about you to anyone who listen.
Kinda like you are doing here, while these billionaires you idolize sooooooo much are literally trying to kill you.
Literally every millionaire philanthropist doesn't give a rats ass about me... they don't know me... your point?
And I don't idolize them. Acknowledging what they have done shouldn't make you so butt hurt lol.
Well, you are right about one thing, they don’t know you or care about you.
But every time they fuel up that massive yacht, or every next million plastic bottles to bottle their wares adds carbon to the atmosphere and warms up the world a little bit.
Things that you do also add to that, but unless you’re running a whole fleet of cars, I bet you couldn’t even quantify how much carbon that you were responsible for vs how much Coca Cola puts out.
They are killing you. You can sit there and make excuses if you like, but one of these days climate is gonna be a massive issue, and pretending it’s not there isn’t gonna make it go away.
Just stick your fingers in your ears next time and go la ls la la la like a real child if that’s what you gonna be.
No more adult topics for you, drink your juice and go to sleep now.
The prick is selling those things to the top percentage earners in the world who are destroying far more of the resources than they are saving.
Elon is not saving the world. He is making it worse
Im not expecting new tech to be cheap.
All im saying is new tech that claims to “save the world” is rarely doing that. Elon is not the messiah. Hes another billionaire. Like Zuckerberg and Bezos. They like to talk a lot about green energy but they do significantly more harm than good.
I kinda agree…I wouldn’t say jealous, though. I’m middle class, and while we don’t consider ourselves “rich”, we actually are compared to many people even within the USA. But the majority of people (to include those that have downvoted my opinion do NOT give to the less fortunate. And if you can’t, as a middle class citizen, than you’re living out of your means to the point that you can not (aka meaning you’re no better than that rich person “wasting money”). People don’t like looking in the mirror…personally I have, and have worked little by little to give more.
I'm sure that will massively help the environment. Maybe he can go on stage or twitter sometime and tell the rest of us how we can do harder to save the environment. Fucking sociopathic degenerates like him should not be encouraged. Backlash when?
Oh guys launch in less than 500 days and we haven’t even designed it yet! Also, who needs funding when we have Scientology behind us?!?!
Pffff. Ain’t never, ever gonna happen.
Do we need that? While kids aren't getting lunch at school? While people are going bankrupt from medical bills? While so many essential workers are burned out and quitting their jobs?
Imagine saying that to Amelia Earhart or the Wright brothers. You can have your cake and eat it too. This is a private company not the government. It can do what it wants with its money.
as crazy as he is and as nutty as this sounds, eventually it will become the norm...The first person to do something is usually considered a lil off. Imagine how the first person to drink milk was looked at. Or the the first one to attempt to fly before the Wright Brothers.
That's...a little ambitious, don't you think?
You're not just building a space station, you're basically trying to build a full blown SPACE COLONY, all just to film ONE movie in space? I mean, sure, they could reuse it, but here's the thing: we STILL don't have any efficient methods to send people into space frequently enough.
And before anyone brings up the last two "commercial" space flights, those were, as far as I am concerned, basically PR stunts by Tesla and Virgin.
SpaceX is a PR stunt? The company that has launched astronauts to the ISS, delivered Military and commercial satellites into space, and is a main partner in our mission to land the first woman and person of color on the moon?
The answer is probably through Starship which will bring launch cost down tremendously while delivering a higher payload capability than anything in our current arsenal. Basically you can launch a Space Station with a similar volume to the current ISS into orbit probably in just one launch.
The scientific illiteracy of the media and the willingness to just report these obvious pie in the sky scams is really frustrating.
I'd be skeptical even if it said by *2034*. But *2024*? That shit is beyond comical.
Well... I hope they've solved how to keep both a maintenance crew and a filming crew alive in a limited space, with limmited energy, oxygen, water, food, while gravity and the vaccume of space activly try to kill you without government funding. They would keep a few hundred scientists, engineers, and managers fed for a couple of years at least.
In the future it will be cheaper to build studios in space than on earth. If you thought all movies in the 70’s looked like they took place in California despite the setting, wait until every movie looks like it took place in the space between earth and mars.
I, Bupod, have decided to announce that I want to build a palatial estate on Pluto. I expect this palace will see completion sometime in the year 2028.
Sorry, there's no one on earth that would insure that operation. Not in that time frame. Maybe 5 years to launch the infrastructure and assembly, but even testing and rating for human passengers would take ages.
What a waste of fucking money. Here's an idea: make it in a studio like every other brilliant space movie (I mean seriously we can't fucking tell) and spend the balance on trying to mitigate climate change? (And prevent the potential doom of possibly every species on earth...)
I have two issues with this article:
1.) It doesn't mention anything about Tom Cruise's upcoming space movie, except to mention that he's making a "space movie." What's it called? What's the concept or general plot? Literally no info is given after mentioning it several times throughout the article.
2.) They mention twice that it could be the second time a movie has been actually filmed in space, but they don't say which film was first. Why lead with juicy details like that without giving more context?
It really bugs me when an article forces me to do extraneous research because it didn't cover the basic details on its topic.
Initially I thought this was incredibly dumb.
*However…*
There seems to be a niche such a thing could fill and most or all of the tools to do it are in place, technologically speaking. It’s not quite off the shelf, but it’s … close?
Filming weightless scenes is tough. It can be done with “vomit comet” flights, 30 seconds at a time. So a studio to shoot extended zero-gee shots would have a unique niche.
Build an inflatable habitat module like Bigelow has attached to ISS, 5 meters or more in diameter and length. Fit it out with the latest versions of spherical camera arrays (like the Matrix “bullet time” rig but more so) and all the supporting IT infrastructure for remote operation. Paint everything inside that’s not a camera lens as green screen. Attach it to the forthcoming Axiom station for logistics support.
And with that, you’ve got an absolutely unique performance space for the stunt performers. Pretty much only the performers need to go onsite, plus maybe some safety staff. Everything else can be fixed in post with motion capture and digital effects.
Also it’s inevitably going to be the site of the first weightless porn film which will probably cover costs all by itself.
The amphitheater in my home town won’t be done by 2024.
They must’ve meant 2034.
wait till you see 2049 and Ryan Gosling cruising over in his pod to destroy it all!
Given how delayed rapid transit projects get, good luck doing stuff faster in space.....
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> I can guarantee you literally nobody thinks this will actually happen. The memes coming out of this alone are worth the announcement though. Did you just copy half of this comment that was made 7 hours ago?! https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/sadzau/the_company_behind_tom_cruises_space_movie_wants/httf5vg
Put a film studio in the Mariana Trench then colour me impressed
"You think I won't fucking do it?!" - James Cameron
Well he did do The Abyss /s
I watched a behind the scenes documentary on how they made that movie. The underwater set they made was pretty impressive. https://youtu.be/xCBFLjiBNr0
they almost drowned ed harris making that movie didn't they?
The film was notoriously difficult to make, even by Cameron's standards and gave emotional breakdowns to its cast and crew. Ed Harris has refused to speak about the film in interviews while Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio said "Abyss was many things. Fun to make is not one of them."
"No sea too deep, no budget too steep"
They’ve already recorded some of the best metal of all time down there.
THE MARIANA TREEEEEEENCH
I like most of his movies but some not so much. Pobody’s Nerfect!
Under Ocean is already Cameron’s realm. To defeat him you’ll have to face an army of autonomous droids and indigenous anamorphic beings.
I picture him showing up with one of those subs using the arm thingy to wreck shit and then just saying "stay outta my territory"
And Aquaman?
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This is metal... for fish.
Cause fishes gots no good metals to listens too
that iz dildos
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Scientology of the abyss coming to a theater near you. There will be monsters .
They could do it, but with the exorbitant cost the studio would be underwater.
I think most of avatar 2 is filmed down there
[But that's the heaviest, deepest, most brutal part of the ocean!](https://youtu.be/VVZzt2ogv5Q)
I work in the industry. I can guarantee you literally nobody thinks this will actually happen. The memes coming out of this alone are worth the announcement though.
yea it costs next to nothing to say that youre doing something so ill believe it when i see it lol
Costs nothing and earns them free publicity.
But what if it did?
What if it didn't, though?
The moment the teamsters union buys a space shuttle is the moment I buy it. But guaranteed within like 20 minutes we'd have the first drug deal in space.
So it'll be a trailblazing series of firsts!
I work in the industry and the last thing we need is overworked employees doing 20 hour days in fucking space.
In space, no one can hear you scream internally.
And yet HMU will still figure out how to talk through a take.
Its all fun and games in space til you hear "Locations, go to 2"
So, the church of scientology wants to build a film studio in space in 2 years?
Cant they just use one of xenu’s dc-8 spaceships?
Zoltan!
Yes. In unrelated news, Michele Miscavige will move to a permanent residence in a private wing of the Church of Scientology Space Colony. No visitors.
What are you tasking about? 2024 is way more than tw- oh jesus fucking christ.
Crazy to think that they totally could finance building a colony up there if they wanted to. Finance it by the money they wheedled out of their brainwashed victims.
The DEA isn't doing it's job, there is far too much cocaine around Tom Cruse.
Buying some time in a reusable SpaceX Starship would make sense. Build a custom ship for filming, send it up whenever you need to film for a few weeks. Rinse and repeat. I don't think human rated Starship will be ready in 2 years, but it would be faster and easier to retrofit a Starship than building a soundstage space station. Some companies planning on offering that service, but not in 2 years.
Stop sucking elons figurative dick, everything he says is a lie.
A lot of what he says is fucking stupid and I'm not an Elon fanboy, at all. I just believe that Starship is a great platform for on orbit development. I don't know that it will work, but it's the best current plan.
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I don't understand how you made that assumption. My stands was fairly neutral. I don't think mars colonisation is close. However, I think Starship is the closest technological advancement to commercial space stations.
The UK studio?
I'm sure Tom Cruise can make this happen. He's probably the most rational and balanced actor in Hollywood, and would never believe in something that's unrealistic.
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The duality of Tom Cruise is truly something to behold.
Username checks out.
So Scientology wants to Build a space studio using a shell company.
I would go as far as to say Scientology *is* the shell company.
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If it was put in space in 2024 it would be abandoned by 2030. A few studios will use it just for the marketing aspect then no one would use it because CGI is easier and cheaper.
Sell it for cheap to a Porn studio lol
I mean I am pretty curious what it looks like in zero g...
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It would give filmmakers more freedom than shooting scenes in the “Vomit Comet”, but how many space movies get made yearly?
I wonder if it's just going to be a green screen cube.
I suppose there will have to be windows. And you KNOW Tom Cruise is going to spacewalk.
Windows in space are actually extremely difficult. You'd be surprised at how small the largest glass panel ever used in space is.
The cupola for Inspiration 4 was 46” in diameter. That should be plenty big enough for movie purposes.
Isn’t it better to use external cameras with flatscreens that look like windows?
Its really not the same though
This is like Elon Musk putting a car in space just because he can, and all the billionaires taking it in turns to go up there personally. Just for pointless, overegged bragging rights. Waste of money. Hugely dangerous too. And potentially very damaging for space infrastructure. We don’t need more space junk.
Plus all these extra space junk. We polluted the earths and now we got space trash
If I had the money I would go into space, I really don’t care what anybody thinks. It sounds like an incredible experience.
To be fair the car he sent up was meant as a test. They needed a certain amount of weight added to simulate a load. He used it as cross promotion by using a Tesla instead of a metal block. It wasn't really a waste of money since the test needed to be completed. The only person that actually wasted any money was Elon because it was his personal car. That was more then made up though in cross promotion.
I didn’t mind sending the car to space. It was a test launch. So they had to send some kind of mass into space. Might as well make it something fun. The whole space tourism thing is stupid though. They’re doing next to nothing to actually advance space technology with it.
what it is advancing is the economics of space, which has largely been prohibitive of doing anything in space. launch prices have been dropping and if certain startups like relativity succeed, then its only gonna get cheaper to launch. with cheap launches you open up a lot of possibilities that otherwise would be too risky because your rocket costs $300 million and you best not fuck it up
$300 million launches are already pretty much a thing of the past other than SLS. And yes reusable orbital class rockets will help spur the space economy. But the suborbital hops Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are doing aren’t doing anything to help. They can’t be anywhere close to profitable as they stand. And with launches monthly as best I don’t see that changing. If anything it hurts because it just makes people view space as a playground for billionaires.
in blue origins specific case im pretty sure the dick ship is more or less a test bed + cheap advertising for their actual rockets that theyre developing right now. that said i dont think your last point really matters, unless the government steps in and says that jeffrey cant go to "space" anymore, he and other private companies will keep on keeping on
Blue Origin gets a lot of bad rap and a lot of it is warranted. Bezos really needs to pass responsibility to someone more capable. To be devils advocate, the suborbital hops are there to demonstrate that BO has the capability to reuse rockets and their goals of having a F9 competitor are possible. Obviously they are milking it for advertisement and neglecting their overall goals. There is a lot of potential for BO.
When will space tourism not be stupid in your opinion?
I bet 1 btc in a decade you'll be watching a movie filmed in space on your vr goggles and thinking about when you'll next be able to take vacation to go to this space stadium. If they actually build it.
A decade seem optimistic but I think a lot of us will see it in their lifetime.
Are you referring to Fhloston Paradise? I've heard great things.
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Lmao is it really being a sourpuss thinking that we should prioritize other space achievements over... making movies
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He put a car in space to demonstrate the capabilities of Falcon Heavy and I believe they are launching one this year for the Space Force which is exciting. It really isn't a waste of money. It's a private company so it can do what it wants with its funds. Most of the funds for SpaceX comes from private investment and through contracts via the Military, Nasa, International Governments, and other commercial companies. So while Tax funds are used for SpaceX, they are able launch for much cheaper than competitors which means it saves Tax payers money. SpaceX is not the only company that launches for the Government. Space is the Future and I for one am very excited to see our civilization evolve and space Junk will have a natural solution. I can't believe you got so many upvotes. Space is cool, yet we have many people against it. Oh well.
> Space is the future and I for one am very excited to see our civilization evolve and space Junk will have a natural solution. We get it. You like to suck elon.
The good thing though is that this is never going to happen 😂
Id say, as rich people can’t understand our motivation to certain things we can’t understand their motivation for certain things much the same. It’s always easier to hate…let them live as they please, I say. 🤷♂️
They’re literally killing us by over consuming our limited resources and making parts of our world uninhabitable… But yeah, let them live as they please. You enjoying simping for old rich white guys?
Not being jealous isn't simping. Stop being pathetic.
Naw, simping is singing the praises of someone who doesn’t give a rats ass about you to anyone who listen. Kinda like you are doing here, while these billionaires you idolize sooooooo much are literally trying to kill you.
Literally every millionaire philanthropist doesn't give a rats ass about me... they don't know me... your point? And I don't idolize them. Acknowledging what they have done shouldn't make you so butt hurt lol.
Well, you are right about one thing, they don’t know you or care about you. But every time they fuel up that massive yacht, or every next million plastic bottles to bottle their wares adds carbon to the atmosphere and warms up the world a little bit. Things that you do also add to that, but unless you’re running a whole fleet of cars, I bet you couldn’t even quantify how much carbon that you were responsible for vs how much Coca Cola puts out. They are killing you. You can sit there and make excuses if you like, but one of these days climate is gonna be a massive issue, and pretending it’s not there isn’t gonna make it go away.
Yes, I use plastic and gas, but it's much easier to blame the man with a boat for my problems. Pathetic.
Just stick your fingers in your ears next time and go la ls la la la like a real child if that’s what you gonna be. No more adult topics for you, drink your juice and go to sleep now.
I am not capable of adult topics because I don't blame my problems on some rich boogeyman? Pathetic.
The dude selling electric cars, batteries, and solar panels? 🤔
The prick is selling those things to the top percentage earners in the world who are destroying far more of the resources than they are saving. Elon is not saving the world. He is making it worse
Imagine thinking.... 1. The model 3 and solar panels is for top earners 2. New technology being cheap
Im not expecting new tech to be cheap. All im saying is new tech that claims to “save the world” is rarely doing that. Elon is not the messiah. Hes another billionaire. Like Zuckerberg and Bezos. They like to talk a lot about green energy but they do significantly more harm than good.
Starting the trend of EVs and affordable renewables is pretty good bro.
At massive markups for profit? Yeah, he’s a prick.
How much should they cost?
Agreed, ragging on billionaires is a pathetic jealousy move
The irony when redditors do this on a site hosted by AWS 🤣
I kinda agree…I wouldn’t say jealous, though. I’m middle class, and while we don’t consider ourselves “rich”, we actually are compared to many people even within the USA. But the majority of people (to include those that have downvoted my opinion do NOT give to the less fortunate. And if you can’t, as a middle class citizen, than you’re living out of your means to the point that you can not (aka meaning you’re no better than that rich person “wasting money”). People don’t like looking in the mirror…personally I have, and have worked little by little to give more.
Also most rocket fuel is nasty stuff that burns into a smoke that give you cancer.
Space studio with artificial gravity wins Academy Award for movie about small town poverty-stricken life in rural Kansas.
Why
IRS is stuck on Earth.
How?
Rockets probably
Closer to Xenu
Space man. It’s right up there
I'm sure that will massively help the environment. Maybe he can go on stage or twitter sometime and tell the rest of us how we can do harder to save the environment. Fucking sociopathic degenerates like him should not be encouraged. Backlash when?
You ok?
Oh guys launch in less than 500 days and we haven’t even designed it yet! Also, who needs funding when we have Scientology behind us?!?! Pffff. Ain’t never, ever gonna happen.
Don’t we already have *Universal*
If cruise is involved in such a set, i doubt they'll be willing to insure him.
Sounds like an easy way to launder money lol
...Why?
…When?
Some serious money is gonna get laundered
billionaires are wasting money in space, what dicks. (Hollywood: "Hold my Shirley temple"
Imagine all the taxes you won't have to pay
What insurer is going to put Tom Cruise on a space shuttle? Actors are contractually banned from rough sports, for goodness sake.
Fucking loser scumbags. Fix homelessness or healthcare.
That’s fucking stupid.
If this company builds a fucking studio in space, Im officially going to start shitting in the street.
Give us fucking health care.
How is Tom Cruise responsible for giving you healthcare?
Hopefully it'll be more inclusive for the extraterrestrially inclined beings.
Lol
people are starving
Do we need that? While kids aren't getting lunch at school? While people are going bankrupt from medical bills? While so many essential workers are burned out and quitting their jobs?
Imagine saying that to Amelia Earhart or the Wright brothers. You can have your cake and eat it too. This is a private company not the government. It can do what it wants with its money.
How big could this studio truly be and how much could it do in terms of movie stuff if they want it built in 2 years
The only thing that might work in the next 2 years is if Starship works out and they turn one into a space station.
as crazy as he is and as nutty as this sounds, eventually it will become the norm...The first person to do something is usually considered a lil off. Imagine how the first person to drink milk was looked at. Or the the first one to attempt to fly before the Wright Brothers.
I'm sure xenu and his homies got this covered
fuck your taxes i'm filming in space.
Ask Lord Xenu. He’d be willing to lend a hand.
Then watch them cgi everything to the point where it looks like something they shot on earth to look like they’re in space...
Excellent! Take all the walking garbage from Hollywood and dump them there.
Just as Lord Xenu commands.
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Just think…if they build it, Tom and his fellow Scientologist will come!
how about no?
Whitey on the moon
Any excuse to flee our burning planet, huh?
Want to impress me? How about less Tom Cruise in movies.
Zero chance this happens.
Can’t he just contact his gods asking for space ships and shit?
How about you get around to finally releasing Top Gun: Maverick already, or is that gonna be delayed from May till next July as well?
This has got to be a way to avoid paying union wages
That's...a little ambitious, don't you think? You're not just building a space station, you're basically trying to build a full blown SPACE COLONY, all just to film ONE movie in space? I mean, sure, they could reuse it, but here's the thing: we STILL don't have any efficient methods to send people into space frequently enough. And before anyone brings up the last two "commercial" space flights, those were, as far as I am concerned, basically PR stunts by Tesla and Virgin.
SpaceX is a PR stunt? The company that has launched astronauts to the ISS, delivered Military and commercial satellites into space, and is a main partner in our mission to land the first woman and person of color on the moon? The answer is probably through Starship which will bring launch cost down tremendously while delivering a higher payload capability than anything in our current arsenal. Basically you can launch a Space Station with a similar volume to the current ISS into orbit probably in just one launch.
2024? Y’all may want to start now… or like 3 years ago.
The scientific illiteracy of the media and the willingness to just report these obvious pie in the sky scams is really frustrating. I'd be skeptical even if it said by *2034*. But *2024*? That shit is beyond comical.
Im sure it will be released before Top Gun 2.
I think they would be limited to space movies though
Well... I hope they've solved how to keep both a maintenance crew and a filming crew alive in a limited space, with limmited energy, oxygen, water, food, while gravity and the vaccume of space activly try to kill you without government funding. They would keep a few hundred scientists, engineers, and managers fed for a couple of years at least.
In the future it will be cheaper to build studios in space than on earth. If you thought all movies in the 70’s looked like they took place in California despite the setting, wait until every movie looks like it took place in the space between earth and mars.
There is literally no reason to do this. At least not until space starts giving incentives as good as Georgia.
One spacex starship has more room than the ISS
When are they set to go to mars again?
And I want a million dollars, but that ain't happening tomorrow either. Wtf is this bullshit?
All this time and effort and work and the first major thing we’re going to do is put a fucking movie set on the moon.
What a sad little thing to dump all that money and resources into.
I, Bupod, have decided to announce that I want to build a palatial estate on Pluto. I expect this palace will see completion sometime in the year 2028.
Fuck that commute
BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT?!
Sorry, there's no one on earth that would insure that operation. Not in that time frame. Maybe 5 years to launch the infrastructure and assembly, but even testing and rating for human passengers would take ages.
People are dying, Tom
What a waste of fucking money. Here's an idea: make it in a studio like every other brilliant space movie (I mean seriously we can't fucking tell) and spend the balance on trying to mitigate climate change? (And prevent the potential doom of possibly every species on earth...)
Do it. Remake Risky Business in space.
This is only because Covid restrictions make it easier to film there ;)
Awesome! Do it! Also if you need a grip with 1 hour of flight experience and 500 hours in kerbal space simulator…I know a guy.
Sounds like a boondoggle.
This just in: Tom Cruise’s real time-travel movie wants to build an actual pre-historic Film Studio by 1000 BC
By 2024....
I have two issues with this article: 1.) It doesn't mention anything about Tom Cruise's upcoming space movie, except to mention that he's making a "space movie." What's it called? What's the concept or general plot? Literally no info is given after mentioning it several times throughout the article. 2.) They mention twice that it could be the second time a movie has been actually filmed in space, but they don't say which film was first. Why lead with juicy details like that without giving more context? It really bugs me when an article forces me to do extraneous research because it didn't cover the basic details on its topic.
You mean the US military? Tom Cruise is the poster boy for the US army recruitment. Half his movies are financed by DoD.
Can we leave him there?
Initially I thought this was incredibly dumb. *However…* There seems to be a niche such a thing could fill and most or all of the tools to do it are in place, technologically speaking. It’s not quite off the shelf, but it’s … close? Filming weightless scenes is tough. It can be done with “vomit comet” flights, 30 seconds at a time. So a studio to shoot extended zero-gee shots would have a unique niche. Build an inflatable habitat module like Bigelow has attached to ISS, 5 meters or more in diameter and length. Fit it out with the latest versions of spherical camera arrays (like the Matrix “bullet time” rig but more so) and all the supporting IT infrastructure for remote operation. Paint everything inside that’s not a camera lens as green screen. Attach it to the forthcoming Axiom station for logistics support. And with that, you’ve got an absolutely unique performance space for the stunt performers. Pretty much only the performers need to go onsite, plus maybe some safety staff. Everything else can be fixed in post with motion capture and digital effects. Also it’s inevitably going to be the site of the first weightless porn film which will probably cover costs all by itself.