Sorry Elon Musk and Tom Cruise, Russia won this space race. While countless movies take place in space, no movie has ever gone to space to film. Multiple factors go into making space travel possible, and adding an entire cast and crew who has never been to space would take some extra time and money. But what we thought was impossible has now become possible. Yesterday morning, actor Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko, and veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov blasted off to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft intending to film segments for Shipenko’s newest feature, The Challenge. Russia’s Channel One broadcasted the launch today, offering livestreams in multiple languages for the world to watch film history being made. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 5 October, 2021