EXCLUSIVE: Last month Russian director Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild became the first ever film crew to boldly go into outer space to shoot scenes for their upcoming project The Challenge.
The duo blasted off to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz on October 5 along with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov where they filmed more than 30 hours of footage across 12 days before returning to Earth on October 17.
The project is the first feature film to be shot in space, beating Tom Cruise and Elon Musk’s upcoming $200M action adventure with NASA and Space X.While budget is still being kept under wraps, The Challenge centers around a surgeon (Peresild) who is dispatched to the ISS to save a cosmonaut.
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