The Russian film crew that shot the first film in space recently returned to Earth. On October 5, 2021, three people launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to make the first space film. Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan early on Sunday as planned, according to live broadcasts from theRussian space agencyemerges. They were the actress, the director and the astronaut Anton Shkaplerov.
Successful filming of the first film in space
Oleg Novitsky, who has spent the last six months on the International Space Station (ISS), brought the film crew back to dry land. “The descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft is upright and safe. The crew is fine!” The Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted this. The filmmakers departed from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month. They then traveled to the station with veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov to film scenes for “The Challenge.” Incidentally, Tom Cruise is also planning to shoot a film in space. However, Russian actress Yulia Peresild already did this on the space station. In addition, Russians beat the USA in the race to become the first film in which the action was shot in space. If the project stays on track, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project that was released last year byMission Impossible-Star Tom Cruisewas announced alongside NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The film's plot, which has been largely kept under wraps along with the budget, revolves around a surgeon who is sent to the ISS to save a cosmonaut. Shkaplerov, 49, is expected to make brief appearances in the film alongside the two Russian cosmonauts who were already aboard the ISS. However, the mission did not go entirely smoothly. When the film crew docked at the ISS earlier this month, Shkaplerov had to switch to manual controls. The 37-year-old Russian actress Yulia Peresild, who was selected from around 3,000 applicants, was the last to be pulled off the spaceship to applause.
