{"id":312188,"date":"2025-12-12T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:29:08","slug":"tom-cruise-is-no-longer-set-to-make-history-in-space-as-the-actors-nasa-movie-with-edge-of-tomorrow-director-has-reportedly-been-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312188\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise is no longer set to make history in space as the actor’s NASA movie with Edge of Tomorrow director has reportedly been scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Cruise’s in-development space movie has proven to be mission impossible. The actor’s history-making project with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman has reportedly been scrapped.<\/p>\n

According to Page Six<\/a>, sources say that the movie reached a dead-end due to Cruise’s reluctance to ask the President for permission to work with NASA. “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,” an insider told the publication. “You\u2019d need permission from the federal government. Tom didn\u2019t want to ask for political reasons.”<\/p>\n

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Back in 2020<\/a>, it was announced that Cruise would be working on the first narrative movie shot in space, with a NASA administrator confirming that the actor would be shooting on board the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

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Updates were few and far between until 2022, when Universal Pictures boss Donna Langley confirmed<\/a> that “Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He\u2019s taking the world to space.”<\/p>\n

“We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that,” Langley said at the time. “Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”<\/p>\n

The untitled movie would have seen Cruise play “a down-on-his-luck guy who finds himself in the position of being the only person who could save Earth.” If nothing else, we’re pretty gutted that we’ll never see Cruise do a spacewalk.<\/p>\n

Next up for the Mission: Impossible star is a currently untitled movie from The Revenant director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. Not much is known about the film yet, except that he’ll lead a stacked ensemble cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Emma D’Arcy, John Goodman, Sandra H\u00fcller, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, and Michael Stuhlbarg.<\/p>\n

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Cruise and I\u00f1\u00e1rritu’s new movie arrives in theaters on October 2, 2026. For more on what to watch, check out our guide to the rest of 2026’s biggest upcoming movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise’s in-development space movie has proven to be mission impossible. The actor’s history-making project with Edge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-312188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}