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Movies in Space?

Posted by michael on from the wirefu dept.

Pentapod writes: "Surely this must have been submitted ... but I haven't seen it yet. A new module being planned on the International Space Station will include facilities for the first film studio in space. Angelina Jolie in zero-gravity, anyone?" And it's even named Enterprise, not for its bold, pioneering spirit, but for its commercial nature. *shrug* My guess is that it's cheaper to float your actors with special effects than to send them up and shoot them in real zero gravity.

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  1. Re:houston we have a problem... by stripes · · Score: 5
    Wouldn't the vomit comit be a LOT cheaper than sending an entire crew into space? is there even room? Worked fine for Ron Howard and Apollo 13.

    While it worked (the zero-g scenes are wonderful -- of corse I think the whole movie is), it was costly, and difficult.

    The Apollo 13 crew has logged more vomit-comet time then any astronaut. More then anyone other then the people that fly the thing. That wasn't cheep (I don't know if the film company payed, or if it was done on our tax dollars).

    You only get about 30 seconds of zero-g at once. That makes it hard to film long scenes. No, it makes it hard to film short ones, really really hard for long ones :-)

    There is very little space to film there. The set on 13 was of a cramped space craft, so it wasn't impossible to film, but it was hard to fit cameras and lights in.

    I'm sure there is some other stuff as well, but it has been a while since I watched the film, and even longer since I listened to the directors commentary...