As Tom Cruise prepares to begin production on the eighth installment of his hit franchise Mission: Impossible, which is set to start shooting in South Africa in just a few weeks, a new report has provided some more insight into what the nominated actor is. 3 times at the Oscars he could plan for 2023, a year that should take him into space!

After Space Entertainment Enterprise, a company that previously stated that it will co-produce Tom Cruise’s next space film, recently revealed its plans to build what is essentially a film studio in space by December 2024, Variety followed up on the project. ‘ambitious claim and learned more about Tom Cruise’s planned space film, including how much of the film will actually take place outside of Earth’s atmosphere.

Filming in Space

According to Variety sources at Universal Pictures, SEE’s plans to build a studio in space have no connection with Tom Cruise’s upcoming film, which is still in development. With Tom Cruise finishing Mission: Impossible 7 last year and planning to finish Mission: Impossible 8 before the end of this calendar year, the studio expects to begin principal photography on the production of the untitled 200-plus film. million dollars in early 2023.

Universal is currently waiting for director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow; American Made) and producer, director, and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Fallout; Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) to deliver the script, which presumably will take place in the next months. 

Although the details have been kept under wraps since the venture was initially announced nearly two years ago, the exchange has confirmed that Tom Cruise will only shoot part of the film aboard the International Space Station, with most of the project filmed on Earth. Further sequences should also be shot on a rocket.

As previously reported, the project will not be a science fiction story, but instead will be a simple action/adventure story. The plot will follow an unfortunate boy (Cruise), who suddenly finds himself in the unique position of being the only person who can save the Earth.

With production tentatively slated for 2023, if all goes according to plan, there is a strong possibility that we could see this insanely ambitious film finally hit the big screen in 2024. Meanwhile, Cruise will hit theaters with Top Gun: Maverick on 27th. May 2022. He will then light the fuse with Mission: Impossible 7 on July 14, 2023, and Mission: Impossible 8 on June 28, 2024.