Actor Tom Cruise’s lofty plans to shoot a movie in space has been brought to Earth by politics. Movie industry website Page Six says to get to space would have required asking the current administration for permission and Cruise didn’t want to be in the position of asking President Donald Trump “for a favor,” according to an unnamed source quoted by the publication. “Tom didn’t want to ask for political reasons.”
Cruise proposed the idea in 2020 and there was initial enthusiasm from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, a Trump appointee. “NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station! We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality,” Bridenstine tweeted at the time. The movie was to be about a down-on-his-luck guy who ends up being the only one who can save mankind, but it apparently never progressed beyond that.
“The movie was to be about a down-on-his-luck guy who ends up being the only one who can save mankind”
Amazon MGM already made this movie. It’s called Project Hail Mary…
Based on that limited précis, everyone has made that movie, starting with “A Trip to the Moon” by Georges Méliès in 1902. But that was not the point.
The head of our current administration has a lifetime of making everything transactional to his personal benefit. Owing him a favor is a really bad idea that has a very long and expensive tail (see: “The Art of the Deal”, pp. 1-384).
Film projects are delayed three years for many far less valid reasons. I can wait.
Tom Cruise did not have to ask Trump for a favor if he wanted to do such a movie. That is pure progressive TDS political nonsense. Does anyone think that Trump cares about Tom Cruise or that the president has to give permission for making movies. It is called the International Space Station for a reason and the people who are involved do not get or need presidential permission. If Cruise et.al really wanted to go to space they should be asking Musk or Bezos not the pentagon or Trump. Leave your personal politics out of this.
Oh, The Orange One would have heard about it and asked for his pound of flesh.
(see: “The Art of the Deal”, pp. 1-384).
Lol. The entire book…
Too bad the “no politics” rule from VAF doesn’t apply here. Smh.