
Tom Cruise has pulled off plenty of impossible stunts, but one project may have been a little too tangled in politics for him to touch. Page Six reports that Cruise’s long-rumored plan to shoot a movie in actual outer space stalled out partly because he didn’t want to ask Donald Trump for a favor.
Back in 2020, Deadline revealed that Cruise and his “Edge of Tomorrow” director Doug Liman were developing a movie that would include scenes shot in space. They were reportedly working with SpaceX and NASA, which made the whole idea sound surprisingly doable.