{"id":180112,"date":"2025-12-12T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/180112\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:28:06","slug":"will-politics-get-in-the-way-of-tom-cruise-shooting-a-movie-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/180112\/","title":{"rendered":"Will politics get in the way of Tom Cruise shooting a movie in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, we reported that Tom Cruise, ever-ambitious, had set a big milestone for himself: He and his frequent director Doug Liman were going to make an actual movie in actual space, where everything would probably go fine, and he would probably not become the first major Hollywood star to die in low-Earth orbit. (We might have, uh, phrased it slightly differently at the time.<\/a>) Now, though, a report from <\/a>Page Six<\/a>\u00a0suggests that damn dirty terrestrial politics may have gotten in the way of Cruise\u2019s ambitions to absolutely die, on camera, in space make a movie outside Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

See, anybody wanting to make a movie in space (at least American space, we guess) has got to do so with the approval of NASA, which means, ultimately, the approval of the sitting United States president. Which means, in turn, that Cruise would almost certainly have to personally ask Donald Trump for a favor. Which he has apparently been reticent to pick up the phone and do.<\/p>\n

We should note that\u00a0Page Six, which quotes \u201can insider familiar with the filmmakers,\u201d tends to be both extremely gossip-y and overly credulous, so you\u2019ll want to take the whole thing with a grain of salt. The issue, in their telling, isn\u2019t that Cruise is necessarily personally opposed to Trump, though, with the actor having adopted one of Hollywood\u2019s most studied poses of political indifference for decades at this point. The issue is that Cruise is apparently so\u00a0apolitical that even asking Trump to help him get into orbit would be seen as too political, given how divisive both the man\u2019s presidencies have been. (That or, as Page Six\u00a0also notes, he doesn\u2019t enjoy the many public comments Trump has made over the years when meeting actual Air Force fighter pilots, telling them they\u2019re both taller and better looking than Cruise.)<\/p>\n

Do we truly stand at the limits of what one actor can do to slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God before, like, getting hit by a satellite and exploding? It\u2019s depressing to imagine that something as petty as politics could get in the way of these dreams. (Liman, for the record, talked about this all obliquely back in September of 2025<\/a>; at the time, he was using a lot of \u201cif\u201d language about the possibility of making a movie in space, so a lot of the heat has definitely bled out of the project.) Cruise is, after all, 62 now: He\u2019s got, what, 30 years before he\u2019s in terrible danger of dying planet-side instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, we reported that Tom Cruise, ever-ambitious, had set a big milestone for himself: He and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-180112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}