Tom Cruise has canceled plans to shoot a movie in space with the assistance of NASA, with Trump cited as the issue.
When it was announced back in 2020 that Tom Cruise wanted to shoot a movie in space with help from NASA and Elon Musk‘s explosion factory Space X, the general reaction was pretty chill. “Of course,” we said. “Makes perfect sense, when you think about it. If anyone was going to, it’s the Cruiser.”
Any other pertinent details seemed largely irrelevant. Tom would be reuniting with his Edge Of Tomorrow and American Made director Doug Liman for this one? Sure, why not? Liman’s a reliable journeyman who occasionally knocks it out of the park, and you probably want a director who’ll top out at three takes in an environment where time, oxygen, and bone calcium are at a premium. $200m budget? Sounds a bit cheap, really. Tom plays an everyday schlub who finds the fate of the world in his hands? Par for the course.
But now Page Six is saying that dream is now as distant as the Van Allen Belt. According to them, Cruise didn’t want to deal with the hassle of negotiating with President Trump in order to secure the government co-operation required to mount the project, and so that’s pretty much that. Cruise also reportedly turned down being honoured by Trump at the Kennedy Centre, which makes the ol’ couch-jumper cooler than KISS.
But back to the point at hand. According to our old friend, Unnamed Source, “From what I understand, they would need NASA coordination to do the movie, and supposedly Tom Cruise did not want to ask Donald Trump for a favor. You’d need permission from the federal government.
“Tom didn’t want to ask for political reasons.”
Which is a shame, if for no other reason that Tom will have to dream up another way to die on screen for our entertainment. Does he know about volcanoes?
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