Russia Races to Beat Tom Cruise and NASA With First Movie Filmed in Space (nbcnews.com) 57
Which country will shoot the first movie in outer space? Russia is now "in a race with the United States to claim the achievement," reports NBC News.
36-year-old actress Yulia Peresild and 37-year-old director Klim Shepenko will complete Russia's cosmonaut-training program, ultimately taking two of the three seats aboard the October launch of Russia's Soyuz mission to the International Space Station: The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced Thursday that it had selected its crew to headline the film, which will be called "Challenge..."
Very little is known about the plot, which in many ways seems secondary to the spectacle. When Russia announced the project last year, Konstantin Ernst, the head of Russia's Channel One — which is working with Roscosmos on the film — said that it would not be a science fiction film, but a realistic depiction of near-term space travel. "It's a movie about how a person in no way connected with space exploration, due to various reasons and personal debt, ends up a month later in orbit," Ernst said in a September 2020 interview. "That's all I can tell you...."
The decision to fill the October Soyuz flight with a movie crew comes at an uncertain time for Russia's space program... In October, NASA paid for its final flight aboard Soyuz... Russia is now left to look for other means to help subsidize launch costs. One of those obvious sources — beyond funding from the state television network Channel One — is space tourism. Another Soyuz will launch in December, and rather than fill those seats with Russian cosmonauts, Moscow announced Thursday that two Japanese space tourists will take the ride.
36-year-old actress Yulia Peresild and 37-year-old director Klim Shepenko will complete Russia's cosmonaut-training program, ultimately taking two of the three seats aboard the October launch of Russia's Soyuz mission to the International Space Station: The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced Thursday that it had selected its crew to headline the film, which will be called "Challenge..."
Very little is known about the plot, which in many ways seems secondary to the spectacle. When Russia announced the project last year, Konstantin Ernst, the head of Russia's Channel One — which is working with Roscosmos on the film — said that it would not be a science fiction film, but a realistic depiction of near-term space travel. "It's a movie about how a person in no way connected with space exploration, due to various reasons and personal debt, ends up a month later in orbit," Ernst said in a September 2020 interview. "That's all I can tell you...."
The decision to fill the October Soyuz flight with a movie crew comes at an uncertain time for Russia's space program... In October, NASA paid for its final flight aboard Soyuz... Russia is now left to look for other means to help subsidize launch costs. One of those obvious sources — beyond funding from the state television network Channel One — is space tourism. Another Soyuz will launch in December, and rather than fill those seats with Russian cosmonauts, Moscow announced Thursday that two Japanese space tourists will take the ride.
There is no sound (Score:1)
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There is sound in space, lurn us sum fisucks.
There is less sound outside of the space craft than inside it.
But for example, an explosion makes sound in space. What is an explosion? A rapid expansion of gas. What is sound? Vibrations in gas. So when something in space explodes, there is a shell of gas expanding, and when that gas bombards your space craft, audio-frequency vibrations will be passed through your hull and/or windows to the gas inside, where you will hear it.
If you're out on a spacewalk with a f
Re: There is no sound (Score:1)
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That's because I'd keep my helmet on, dipshit.
And guess what? If I was wearing that helmet here on Earth, with the radio off, you also wouldn't hear me.
You're not capable of thought. You're only capable of mimicking.
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The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced Thursday that it had selected its crew to headline the film, which will be called "Challenge..."
Or to give it it's full title, "Deep Throat Challenge".
Very little is known about the plot, which in many ways seems secondary to the spectacle.
There's never much plot in these things: Female astronaut needs help with her plumbing, male astronaut turns up, oops, her space suit wasn't zipped up properly, the only thing that's different is that it's all done in zero G.
"It's a movie about how a person in no way connected with space exploration, due to various reasons and personal debt, ends up a month later in orbit,"
... servicing the astronauts.
Russia is now left to look for other means to help subsidize launch costs.
Expect to see it soon on Pornhub PPV.
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Fake Moon Landing (Score:2, Funny)
Shouldn't the Lunar Landing starring Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin be the first movie filmed in space? To fake it, they had to film it on the moon.
Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
It's my firm personal opinion that Tom Cruise should move to Russia to make a movie in space. And then stay there.
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Unfortunately, that's mission impossible. There's another person I'd send before him anyhow.
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Not to be outdone. (Score:4, Funny)
US vows to be the first to launch Instagram influencer into heliosynchronous orbit.
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Can we launch all the "Instagram influencers" into orbit and leave them there? It's a net negative having them here.
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pity.
there is only off topic to evaluate this post.
but there are many other adjectives that would easily be usable here
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Re: wake me up from this nightmare... (Score:1)
First movie? (Score:5, Informative)
I thought IMAX already did a few of movies filmed in space like Blue Planet and Destiny in Space.
What exactly does "movie" really mean here then?
Hollywood blockbuster, documentary, home movie, random videos on a space station?
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Re: First movie? (Score:2)
Yeah, so maybe it is defined the production of a fictional plot lasting over one and a half hours [using at least one human actor]. Hmm it would be easy for any of the astronauts in space to do it I suppose.
Why? (Score:2)
What are the benefits of filming in space that cannot be done for far less resources inside the stratosphere and even troposphere?
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Publicity.
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Why would you need that in cinematography? Most basic form of video editing is literally gluing clips of film together to form a coherent whole, and you just need to have the starting point match the end point of a previous shoot, which cinematography had over a century to perfect.
IMAX filmed on ISS already (Score:3)
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IMAX filmed on ISS already. I think it must be getting close to 2 decades ago they did this.
Presumably that was a documentary, which makes sense. I was going to say, unless it's a documentary, what's even the point of this other than gimmick? We can completely recreate the whole experience with CGI, and for much cheaper. And in fact, I'll bet good money they're still gonna use CGI to butcher this real in space footage anyway. So why even bother? It serves no purpose, other than to drum up interest for what's probably an even-less-interesting-than-usual script
Hockey Game (Score:2)
Tower this is ghost shuttle requesting a flyby (Score:3)
Tower this is ghost shuttle requesting a flyby
There is still the burning question of (Score:4, Funny)
How soon is Pornhub going to film their First Porn in Space?
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There still will be those that claim that the orgasm was faked.
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Wasn't there a porno filmed in the vomit comet or some other similar plane - in simulated zero g?
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Leningrad Cowboys Already Did This (Score:2)
or maybe: Jupiter Calling [youtu.be]
3D IMAX high G's puke (Score:1)
I'm so sold!
Great, but I'm looking forward to the first PORNO (Score:2)
done in space.
Important, consequential plots, serious acting with appropriate costumes and gorgeous scenery means nothing without humping.
Am I right?
And for no reason (Score:3)
All About National Pride (Score:1)
For Russia, space has always been a source of national pride. It's not at all surprising that Russia jumped on the opportunity to make a movie on the ISS before Cruise and his director Doug Liman could launch their project.
It's also not surprising that Russia announced that they're pulling out of the ISS consortium after 2024, and launching their own space station. They've lost their monopoly on crewed flights to the ISS, and still have nothing to compare with the Dragon and Starliner spacecraft. That must
#moneysink (Score:2)
There is really no reason to do this outside of filming a documentary. Otherwise, filming a movie in space would not add any significant cinematic value or plot viability that cannot be reproduced using standard cinema special effects.
And there are already documentaries that have been filmed at least partially in space.
Russia entering a space race with the U.S. (Score:2)
Who really cares? (Score:2)
Like is there some special reward for filming in space? Chris Hatfield already filmed a music video and Apollo 13 had actual zero-g scenes. Seems like Russia is racing for a Wikipedia footnote or IMDB trivia entry.
Regardless of who's first, the one starring Tom Cruise is going to win in every way that matters.
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Seems like Russia is racing for a Wikipedia footnote or IMDB trivia entry.
That's what it says, they're trying to sell a footnote, because SpaceX ate their borscht.
I’m waiting for BangSpaceBus and Fake Space (Score:2)
Who will shoot the first space porn? I’m betting it’s going to be done on a Virgin Galactic flight.
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Humiliation? (Score:2)
Meh (Score:2)
Huh? (Score:2)
will it have a compelling story? (Score:4, Insightful)
Remind me of something (Score:2)
Is this really 2021 and not 1957 with US and Russia trying to out do each other while totally ignoring the Chinese?
{o.o}
Trailer of Russian movie opening scene released (Score:2)
Scene 1: Soyuz slowly docks, suspenseful music, handsome male astronaut penetrates the ISS airlock, music fades.
"Helo, I am ze plummer, I have come fix IZZ plumming"
And everyone with a functional Internet knows how the movie goes from there ...
All movies are already made in Space (Score:1)
Soyuz flight mysteriously fails (Score:2)
Given Cruise's penchant for method acting, I'm going to predict that he uses his Mission: Impossible background to sabotage the Soyuz flight just so he can be the first to film a non-documentary movie in space.
It's a stupid waste of money (Score:2)
You can't make a movie in space. Because while there may be lots of 'space', you're going to be in a cramped, pressurized can without much space at all.
Where will the movie crew go? How are you going to fit decent lights and cameras in the available volume, and get good angles and lighting when you can't just knock out a wall or ceiling?
Hell, how are you going to get an entire crew that's suitably trained and physiologically and psychologically fit to handle the experience AND manage to be professional ab