A Russian actress is all set to film the first ever movie in orbit and has taken off to the International Space Station.
Superstar Yulia Peresild took off on board a Soyuz MS-19 rocket on her journey to the ISS from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 09:55 BST on October 5. She was joined by director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
This will be the first film shot in orbit and will see the Russians chalk up another space-based victory over the Americans. It is noteworthy that Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise is also rumoured to be planning a trip to the ISS to film a movie of his own.
The Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS will also be seen in the finished film.
‘This movie is built around a story of an ordinary person… A doctor who had nothing to do with space exploration and never thought about it is offered to travel to the ISS… and save a cosmonaut’s life,’ director and actor Klim Shipenko told a news conference last week.
Commander Anton Shkaplerov added: ‘I won’t be starring in it but still I will need to figure out how a movie is produced in such an unusual place as outer space.’
