Film Studio in the Stars? Why Space Entertainment Enterprise Has Its Head in the Clouds
variety.comClaudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefCall me skeptical but are we really to take seriously last week’s pronouncement that a full-blown movie production studio and sports arena are going to be built in space?
Seems so ludicrous and way too sci-fi to me, but then maybe I’m just not space-wonk enough to buy it. We ran a story on Jan.
19 that Space Entertainment Enterprise, a company that said it was co-producing Tom Cruise’s planned space movie, was aiming to build a space station module by December 2024 that would host films, television, music and sports events, and enable artists, producers and other creatives to make content in the “low-orbit, micro-gravity environment.” Axiom Space, which received NASA’s approval in January 2020 to build a commercial component of the International Space Station, is supposed to undertake the construction of SEE-1.
My sources at Universal Pictures say they weren’t at all aware of this otherworldly plan for an entertainment arena to be launched in space and that it is unrelated to Cruise’s movie plans.
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