Here are Details About the First Movie Studio to Be Built in Orbit

This week the producers of Tom Cruise’s future space movie announced plans to attach a studio to the International Space Station in development by Houston-based company Axiom.

The movie’s producers have already signed a deal with Axiom to build the studio in orbit.

U.K.-based studio Space Entertainment Enterprise, co-founded by producers Elena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, contracted Axiom to build the module.

Dubbed SEE-1, the module would be “the world’s first content and entertainment studios and multipurpose arena in space.”

A spokesperson for the studio said in an email to CNBC the company is “in production on the upcoming Tom Cruise movie, which will be filmed in space.”

SEE-1 is scheduled to launch in December 2024. It will attach to Axiom’s first module that the company plans to connect to its space station in September 2024.

“Adding a dedicated entertainment venue to Axiom Station’s commercial capabilities in the form of SEE-1 will expand the station’s utility as a platform for a global user base and highlight the range of opportunities the new space economy offers,” Axiom president and CEO Michael Suffredini said.

A Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) spokesperson said in an email to CNBC that the company is “in production on the upcoming Tom Cruise movie, which will be filmed in space.” Cruise has yet to comment publicly on the space film, but NASA announced in 2020 that the agency is working with the actor on the movie.

Financial details of the studio’s contract with Axiom were not revealed.

“The company is currently in discussions with investors and commercial partners on the project with a further fundraising round planned shortly,” Space Entertainment Enterprise said in a press release.

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