After the American actor Tom Cruise was planning to be the first actor to film a movie in space to add this title to his many titles, someone preceded him and thwarted the plans of the famous action star.
In the details, Russia showed a promotional advertisement for a movie called The Challenge, or “The Challenge”, which it said was “the first feature film filmed in space” and that it is expected to be shown next month on April 20.
The events of this film revolve around an astronaut who loses consciousness while on the International Space Station, which requires sending a team of seven surgeons into space, in order to perform an operation on him, as we see in the promotional advertisement a heart surgeon named “Zhenya”, whose character is embodied by the Russian actress Julia Peresild, as she struggles to have the men around her recognize her abilities, after someone tells her that “space is not for women.”
Regarding the budget of this film, some sources confirmed that it amounted to about 1.115 billion Russian rubles, equivalent to 14.64 million dollars.
While the Soviet sci-fi movie Return from Orbit, released in 1984, included shots in space on the former Soviet space station Salyut 7, “The Challenge” is the first time that the film’s hero and director traveled to space for filming.
Russian actress Julia, Russian director Klim Shipenko, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov took off aboard the Sayuz MS-19 space flight from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to capture the scenes of the film.
And last October, it was reported that the American star, who loves to take risks, collaborated with director Doug Lehman to shoot a movie in space, in cooperation with SpaceX and NASA.
And at the time, the head of Universal Art Production, Donna Langley, revealed that the company is working on a project through which Cruz will be transported to space and some scenes will be filmed there, while most of the other movie scenes will be filmed on Earth. She added that she hopes Cruz will become the first civilian to take a space tour outside the International Space Station.
