Floating props and Velcro: Russian film crew says shooting in space a ‘huge challenge’

Name: Russian film crew beats Tom Cruise to arrive first in orbit for maiden shoot in space
Uploaded: 2021-10-19T22:48:11.000Z
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Description: Russian film crew beats Tom Cruise to arrive first in orbit for maiden shoot in space

Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko are back on Earth after 12 days on the International Space Station making the first movie in orbit

If the project stays on track, they will beat a Hollywood project announced last year by star Tom Cruise together with Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX

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Russian actress Yulia Peresild rests after returning to Earth in the Soyuz MS-18 space capsule on Sunday. Photo: Roscosmos via Reuters

Agence France-Presse

Published: 6:48am, 20 Oct 2021Updated: 6:48am, 20 Oct 2021

Their movie props floated around and they used Velcro to keep objects in place but Russia’s first film crew in space said they were delighted with the result and had “shot everything we planned”.

Yulia Peresild, one of Russia’s most glamorous actresses, and film director Klim Shipenko returned to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting the first movie in orbit in an effort to beat the United States.

The plot of The Challenge has been mostly kept under wraps along with the budget. It centres around a surgeon who is dispatched to the ISS to save a cosmonaut.

A beaming Shipenko told reporters that the task was a “huge challenge” and they had to constantly adapt to film scenes.

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Russian film crew beats Tom Cruise to arrive first in orbit for maiden shoot in space

They shot more than 30 hours worth of footage which will later be edited down to around 30 minutes.