Tom Cruise will 'fly into space' to shoot Nasa-backed film

Tom Cruise is set to be space-bound for his new film project.

Teaming up with Elon Musk, the 58-year-old Mission Impossible star is getting ready for lift-off alongside Edge of Tomorrow’s director Doug Liman to film shots for an as-yet untitled film.

Cruise and Liman will reportedly make the trip to the International Space Station next year in the Axiom Space Crew Dragon capsule – a space shuttle owned by Musk – for the Nasa-backed project, reports Space Shuttle Almanac.

Should the project go ahead, the film will be the first ever narrative feature to be filmed in space.

The project was first announced by Nasa in May last year where administrator Jim Bridenstine!