![]() ![]() The movie is aimed to popularize Russia’s space activities, as well as glorify cosmonaut profession. The title of the picture is yet to be confirmed. The protagonist to fly to the ISS, as well as his backup will be selected during an open contest. Currently, the parties are discussing the details of the future movie, including the scenario, technical capabilities of the filming process, as well as the cast. The plot will include a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for autumn 2021 on the Russian Soyuz MS crewed spacecraft. The plan, so far, is as follows: Klim Shipenko (Salyut 7, The Peasant) will direct the movie, with Dmitry Rogozin, Konstantin Ernst, Sergei Titinkov, Eduard Iloyan, Denis Zhalinsky, Vitaly Shlyappo, Alexey Trotsyuk as general producers of the large-scale project. Not to be outshone, Russia had its answer ready a mere four days later. Pandemic and impending civil war be damned, we’re making a movie in space. ![]() There’s little in the way of details beyond that it aims to be “the first narrative feature film – an action adventure – to be shot in outer space,” per Deadline, but Space Shuttle Almanac informed us this week via Twitter that a tourist mission with director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise is slated for an October 2021 launch. Cruise will fly to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Nevertheless, NASA confirmed the story’s validity at the time and Elon Musk (of course) found a way to muscle himself in. That’s on top of the $35,000 or so per person per day it’d cost someone to travel to the space station when accounting for basic needs like life-support and food. It costs a lot of money to ship things (and people) to the ISS, starting at a minimum of about $2,000 per kilogram and reaching upwards of about $20,000/kg. We are in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis, not to mention the daily humanitarian crises stateside that continue to outdo each other, so the thought of such a gratuitous undertaking - an excessive waste of money and resources just for the sake of saying you did it - couldn’t feel more ill-timed. Well, everyone except Russia, apparently. ![]() The film was removed from the RedLetterMedia website in June 2014.In this economy? - Everyone thought it was a joke when Deadline first broke the story back in May that the Mission Impossible star could soon be heading to the ISS for an in-space action film. ![]() The film was only available on VHS through mail order from the GMP Pictures website until it was released on the RedLetterMedia website on Feburary 17, 2011. The Long Walk Home was originally released in 2001 as the 8th feature from GMP Pictures, in collaboration with Jay Bauman's Blanc Screen Cinema and Allegory Films. The film is notable for its misleading trailer and its abrupt change in tone to farce during the climax. The film tells the story of a former corrupt cop who resolves to bring down an international crime syndicate after his family is brutally murdered. The film stars Rich Evans, Kim Phillips, Jesse Sorgatz, and Jay Bauman. The Long Walk Home is a 2001 American neo-noir crime thriller short film directed by Mike Stoklasa and written by Stoklasa and Rich Evans. ![]()
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