Filming is underway on the first feature-length movie to be shot in space after Russian actor Yulia Sherepild and director Klim Shipenko docked at the . Their movie, The Challenge, will feature around 35-40 minutes of scenes filmed on the space station, according to . The film is about a surgeon (Sherepild) who goes on an emergency ISS mission to save the life of a cosmonaut (Shipenko).
The two cosmonauts who were already on the ISS captured a shot as Peresild (or her character) emerged from the capsule and entered the station. Sherepild and Shipenko will film scenes over the next couple of weeks before returning to Earth on October 17th.
Other projects have been filmed on the ISS, including , and a short called Tom Cruise hoped to with the help of NASA and SpaceX, but the Russian team beat him to the punch. Russia’s Roscosmos agency announced a plan to send an actor to the ISS soon after word emerged about Cruise’s movie in May 2020.
Time will tell whether The Challenge is any good. Regardless, the creatives behind the project have carved out their own little slice of history.
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