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Variety reports:

Tom Cruise will “hopefully” become “the first civilian to do a spacewalk” outside of the International Space Station when he blasts off to space to shoot a new action movie with director Doug Liman.

Donna Langley, the head of Universal Pictures, teased as much during a recent BBC interview. Universal is backing the Cruise space project, which reportedly carries a budget in the $200 million range.

While it was already known the movie would shoot scenes on the ISS, Langley said the plan is to also have Cruise perform a spacewalk. “Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world to space. That’s the plan,” Langley confirmed to the BBC.

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— Variety (@Variety) October 11, 2022