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You never know what you are going to find on the internet...

I was looking at an astronaut's twitter page. He linked to a story in an entertainment magazine about the possibility of filming real science fiction movies in space, with professional actors, cinematographers and everything. (Hey, the day's coming...) And that story contained a link to this...

It's the first science fiction movie filmed in space, on the space station. (Mostly.) The actors, camera-man etc are astronauts. It sounds like they are just making up their lines as they go. I liked "You're upside down! No, you're upside down! Stop walking on the ceiling, you're creeping me out!" (It must get boring up there.) And they way it starts out with the astronauts saying goodbye to an astronaut who just left, while peering into, waving and speaking into what I believe is their weird Russian designed suction space toilet.

They say that the film took about as long to shoot as to watch, less maybe three minutes. One take,  no rehearsals.

It's pretty stupid, but it's film history. Watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...fv3ZJ2J89M
(Jan 28, 2019 07:05 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]You never know what you are going to find on the internet...

I was looking at an astronaut's twitter page. He linked to a story in an entertainment magazine about the possibility of filming real science fiction movies in space, with professional actors, cinematographers and everything. (Hey, the day's coming...)

"According to a report from Deadline Hollywood, Tom Cruise could be partnering with SpaceX and NASA to launch the first-ever feature film to be produced outside of planet Earth. Reports from the site indicate that the film's development is in very early stages, and plans for the film are preliminary."

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-tom-cru...-in-space/

Jim Bridenstine confirms that NASA's pleased to cooperate with movie filming on the Space Station. He's always been trying to promote all kinds of new activities in space, which is a big part of the motivation for Commercial Crew. This is kind of the essence of that.

https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/statu...5750289409

Tom (who is famous for doing his own stunts) has to do something to top his new Top Gun film, a movie actually filmed in the cockpits of real Navy fighter jets. (That new movie's June 2020 release is apparently being held up by the Chinese coronavirus.)

https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/120...6720292864
More details have been released about the movie that Tom Cruise proposes to film in space. The space travel aspects will be organized by Axiom Space, who have already flown private astronauts to the Space Station. Tom will fly aboard a Crew Dragon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9. Axiom Space will construct a spherical inflatable module called SEE-1 that will be attached to the Space Station and serve as a film studio in space. It will remain attached to the station after the film is completed and will eventually join the other Axiom modules that will split off and form their own station when the original ISS is retired.

So far, nothing has been released about who else will be in the film or what the plot will be.

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/studio

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Figures this would finally happen in an era where almost anything in that type of environment can be adeptly simulated at high-res or even old-fashioned FXed sometimes, going back at least to 2013 (Gravity), if not long before.

Still, a handcrafted indigenous artifact probably beckons more value than an assembly line replica.