The trailer above, scored to the underutilized Gorillaz track “O’Green World,” depicts Cruise’s character, Digger Rockwell, in a dark room with a shovel, until he finds himself standing triumphantly on a beach boardwalk, looking at the sunset. The song itself depicts an apocalyptic planet, which fits snugly within the film’s premise.

Cruise didn’t make an approach at that time even though a Trump-appointed NASA head had previously expressed support for the “Top Gun” star’s space project, indicating that Cruise would even be permitted to shoot aboard the International Space Station, NPR reported then.

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All the way back in 2020, Cruise and director Doug Liman announced they were working on a movie that would be shot in space with the help of SpaceX and NASA. Five years after the

Tom Cruise was set to star in the first narrative movie filmed in space, but the project is no longer going ahead