The prospect of owing President Trump a favor triggered Tom Cruise to scrap his deliberate house film, in accordance with a report in Page Six.
“From what I perceive, they would want NASA coordination to do the film, and supposedly Tom Cruise didn’t wish to ask Donald Trump for a favor. You’d want permission from the federal authorities,” an insider instructed Web page Six. “Tom didn’t wish to ask for political causes.”
As beforehand reported, Cruise was set to reunite with Fringe of Tomorrow director Doug Liman for the mission, which they pitched to Common Footage chairwoman Donna Langley over Zoom in the course of the pandemic. In a 2022 BBC interview, Langley mentioned the film “truly takes place on Earth, after which the character must go as much as house to avoid wasting the day.” For that function, Cruise wished to take a rocket as much as the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
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When information of the movie first surfaced in 2020, former Trump-appointed NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine posted a since-deleted tweet stating that the house company was “excited” to work with Cruise on the film aboard the ISS: “We want fashionable media to encourage a brand new era of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s formidable plans a actuality.”
Cruise has largely stayed apolitical through the years. In August, nevertheless, he turned down a Kennedy Center Honor from Trump, citing “scheduling conflicts.”
