Moscow: The first satellite in space, the first dog, first man, the first woman and now – if everything goes according to the plan – the first film.
Russia took a closer step on Thursday to claim other records in space when the medical and safety commission agreed to a plan for an actor and director to blow up early next month to film the first fiction film, in space.
Film, “The Challenge,” tells of a female doctor launched by short notice to the International Space Station to save the age of cosmonauts.
If filmed on the schedule next month, it will defeat Hollywood to the Low Earth orbit.
NASA announced a plan last year by Tom Cruise to film on the ISS.
Russian space agency, Roscosmos, then announced the ambition of his film.
At a press conference in Moscow, Russian actors, directors and their doubles – both roles have backups, do not let the last minute health problems thwart the project – talk enthusiastically about the new show business.
They said that they hoped to describe it without weight as before in fiction and, through the skills of professional actors, free floating emotions and see the earth from the sky.
“During the first two seconds, it was scary,” Yulia Peresild, who was on track to become the first actor in space, said the training was about aircraft flights which briefly created a micro environment.
“After that, it’s beautiful.” He admitted that he would face limitations: He would do his own makeup, for example, and work without a good lighting or crew.
Peresild and Klim Shipenko, director on the main crew, plan to fly up and return with Soyuz capsules and spend 10 days of filming in the Russian segment from the Space Station.
It is not clear when NASA plans to start the space film project, but Russian officials are quite worried to divert the mission schedule to accommodate a hasty launch.
Blastoff is planned for 5.
October Shkaplerov, a cosmonaut, will drive a three-seat Soyuz spaceship.
Shipenko said the goal was to turn on the experience of space through the eyes of ordinary people, the character of the doctor was played by peresildes.
“We want everyone to be a bit like our hero.” Three cosmonauts will play bits of parts.