Action star Tom Cruise is working on a movie that will be shot in space, according to NASA.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine took to social media today to confirm the rumour, saying filming would take place on the International Space Station (ISS), about 400 kilometres above Earth.
"We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA's ambitious plans a reality," he said.
The tweet followed a report in Hollywood trade outlet Deadline that Cruise was working with Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk to make what would be the first feature film to be shot in space.
The proposed action adventure is in its early stages, Deadline reported on Monday (US time).
Representatives for Cruise did not immediately return a request for comment.
He flew fighter jets for the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, hung off the side of a plane as it took off in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation in 2015 and climbed the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai — the tallest building in the world — for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
Filming on Mission: Impossible 7 was put on hold in February as the coronavirus pandemic took off in Italy.
The disease later led to a worldwide shutdown of Hollywood movie and TV productions and the closure of movie theatres.
The ISS has hosted just 239 people since being launched in 1998, with six people on board at any one time.
Travelling at 8 kilometres a second, the inhabitants orbit Earth every hour and a half, and experience 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.
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