The Russian authorities revealed a trailer for what they say is the first feature film to be filmed entirely in outer space, to precede the idea that the famous American star, Tom Cruise, was working on, in cooperation with billionaire, Elon Musk, according to the British newspaper “The Times”.
The film “The Challenge” revolves around a team of seven doctors sent on a mission outside the globe to treat an astronaut who lost consciousness while on the International Space Station.
The trailer focuses on heart surgeon Zahina, played by 38-year-old Russian artist Yulia Peresild.
According to that passage, this “beautiful doctor” struggles in the film to prove her existence in a male-dominated society, as one of them tells her: “Outer space is not for women.”
The “challenge” was filmed on the International Space Station in October 2021, four months before the Kremlin forces invaded Ukraine, through joint cooperation between the Russian Space Agency “Roscosmos” and the official Channel One.
The film is expected to be shown to the public on April 20, with an official budget of regarding 1.115 billion rubles (regarding 15 million US dollars).
It should be noted that the movie “Return from Orbit”, a science fiction film produced in the year 1984 during the Soviet era, included scenes filmed in space inside the Soviet space station “Salyut-7”.
In 2020, the US Space Agency (NASA) announced an expected cooperation with SpaceX to film a movie starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Lehman on board its International Space Station, with an estimated budget of $200 million.
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