{"id":443220,"date":"2025-12-12T22:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443220\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:50:19","slug":"tom-cruise-space-movie-project-scrapped-over-trump-nasa-coordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443220\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise space movie project scrapped over Trump NASA coordination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Top Gun: Maverick” star Tom Cruise didn\u2019t get his planned space movie off the ground because he didn\u2019t want to ask President Donald Trump<\/a> for NASA coordination, Page Six reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n

An insider revealed to the outlet why Cruise\u2019s movie \u2014 first announced in 2020 \u2014 stalled due to the actor\u2019s differences with the president.<\/p>\n

“From what I understand, they would need NASA coordination to do the movie, and supposedly Tom Cruise did not want to ask Donald Trump for a favor. You\u2019d need permission from the federal government,” the source told Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to a report from Page Six, insiders say that actor Tom Cruise didn’t get a movie set in space made because he didn’t want to ask President Trump for NASA’s cooperation.\u00a0 (Mike Coppola\/WireImage; Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A 2020 Deadline report<\/a> noted Cruise was planning to make a film with “Edge of Tomorrow” director Doug Liman, with portions shot in space.<\/p>\n

The outlet stated that Cruise was “planning to actually travel to space in a craft to shoot the film, and the scoop hung out there until NASA confirmed its participation a day later.”<\/p>\n

The production would have required cooperation from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX and NASA, which was under the first Trump administration at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Actor Tom Cruise at CinemaCon in 2025. (Gilbert Flores)<\/p>\n

However, the film never materialized. The source added, “Tom didn\u2019t want to ask for political reasons.”<\/p>\n

At the time, Trump-appointed NASA head, Jim Bridenstine<\/a>, said the agency would be willing to help the crew film, even offering access to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

In a since-deleted social media post, Bridenstine wrote<\/a>, “NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station! We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality.”<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump had requested to give Cruise a Kennedy Center honor this year. However, the actor declined due to a “scheduling conflict.” (Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n

Cruise has kept his political views private throughout the Trump era, avoiding divisive commentary compared to many of his Hollywood colleagues.<\/p>\n

However, Cruise did generate waves when The Washington Post reported that the actor turned down a Kennedy Center honor from Trump earlier this year, due to “scheduling conflicts<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Representatives for Cruise and the White House did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gabriel Hays is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “Top Gun: Maverick” star Tom Cruise didn\u2019t get his planned…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[69,68246,159,783,11683,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-443220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-fox-news-media","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-tom-cruise","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115709046288192733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}