Tom Cruise’s space movie won’t be ‘gimmicky’

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Tom Cruise’s space movie won’t be “gimmicky”.

The 63-year-old actor was revealed in 2020 to be working with his Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman on a film set outside of the Earth’s surface, and the 60-year-old filmmaker is still very excited about the project, but he’s only going to go ahead with the idea if they can make a “great” movie which needs the groundbreaking setting to serve a purpose.

Asked about the project, Doug told Deadline: “I’m more excited about going to space, not less … but our goal is too make something great. A lot of people are trying to do gimmicky things like, ‘Oh, it’s in space.’

“I’m not interested in doing something that’s a just promotional gimmick. I want to make a film that people watch in a hundred years when maybe there’s hundreds of movies shot in outer space and there’s nothing special about it being in outer space. That’s the goal of everything I do.

“With Swingers, it’s very meaningful to me that lots of people who watch it weren’t even born when it premiered here.

“If I ever shoot a movie in outer space, the question will be what could I do that you couldn’t do on Earth that makes for a great piece of entertainment, that’s better than if you didn’t do it it space.

“Again, its also about technology and storytelling… you can run a line from Swingers all the way through to this potential film in outer space.” Doug has been working on his XR immersive short Asteroid and is excited about the possibilities the project has made him consider.

Admitting there isn’t a real update for the space film as yet, he added: “I’ve just finished this [Asteroid] so I’m now processing what next and what I learned, part of it will be how the audience reacts to it. You’d rather I give you more concrete answers but you’re getting me totally raw… I don’t know where it leaves me.

“I know I want to do more in space … I am more excited about this idea of characters who h av e n o business of going into space after making this. In the way, I was excited after The Bourne Identity.