Russian Film Industry Is Competing With Tom Cruise In Race Of Space Shoot

by Shatakshi Gupta

Nowadays, a race is going on between Hollywood and the Russian film industry. This competition is bizarre as both intend to shoot their film inspace for the first time ever. As per the reports, Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise will shoot his next film in space. On the other hand, Russian actress Yulia Peresild told that she too will soon go to space for shooting. She has said that we not only want to be the maiden but to be the best.

The Russian film is based on a doctor’s story

Yulia, 36, will leave with director Klim Shipenko on October 5 in a Russian rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.  The project was announced in September last year. The name of this film has not been finalized yet, but it is being told that it is based on a doctor, who is sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to save the life of a cosmonaut.The budget of this film has also not been told yet. However, if shooting is to be done in space, then obviously this project will be expensive.

The Russian space agency is providing support

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Russian space Agency, ROSCOSMOS, has also said that we want to open doors to other people as well. The agency also said that Yulia and Shipenko’s medical, space flight sessions and creative selection process have started.

Russian state media Channel One will cover this entire project. The co-producers of this project will be Dmitry Rogozin, Chief of ROSCOSMOS Agency, and Konstantin Ernst, Director of Channel One.

Russia is competing with NASA and Elon Musk

On the other hand, Tom Cruise’s project was announced in May last year.  Tom Cruise spoke to Universal Pictures for this project. It is being told that its budget will be around 1500 crores. The director of the film will be Doug Liman. NASA and Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will also be involved in this project. The Chief of NASA has also expressed happiness over being involved in this project.

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