Although they usually have very realistic scenarios of what space is known to look like, space movies have been filmed on Earth until now, due to the odyssey that would take a team to shoot off the planet in terms of cost, logistics and all the practical and technical aspects of taking a film set into space.
However, with the costs of space missions starting to fall – thanks to the efforts of companies like SpaceX – and with professional filming equipment that is increasingly portable, various filmmakers have shown interest in filming in space; although not the film in its entirety, at least some scenes.
Although Tom Cruise hoped to become the first actor to shoot a movie in space, when filming one of the scenes of the next movie of Mission Impossible off Earth, the tape team Vyzov (Challenge) was ahead of him.
Thus, the first to do so will be the actress Yulia Peresild and the director Klim shipenko, both of Russian origin, who took off this Tuesday, October 5, bound for the International Space Station, aboard a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, from the spaceport of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.
This is possible because, in September, Russia obtained medical clearance to send Shipenko and Peresild into space. For it, both received training and training for four months, to be able to adapt to zero gravity; In addition, they had to learn how the systems on board the ship work and how they should react if, upon returning to Earth, it falls into the sea.
The movie Vyzov is a collaboration between the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Russian media companies, and its history follows a surgeon who has to perform an emergency operation on an astronaut as he is too seriously ill to return to Earth.
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In order to film some scenes on the real space stage, the director and the actress will be in space for about 12 days and they are accompanied by the veteran Russian astronaut, Anton Shkaplerov. The three arrived safely at their destination, about three and a half hours after takeoff.
Shipenko, who will complete filming on Earth after filming the space scenes, said Shkaplerov and two other Russian cosmonauts now aboard the station, Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, will participate in the film.
Subsequently, On October 16, they will return to Earth accompanied by current space station crew member Oleg Novitskiy., while Shkaplerov will return at a later date.