Mission Impossible and Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise is set to star in a movie shot in space thanks to a partnership with NASA, and Universal wants to make him the “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

In an interview with BBC, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairwoman Donna Langley spoke about the project, which will have Cruise and the rest of the film crew take a rocket to the International Space Station to shoot parts of the movie in space.

Cruise and director Doug Liman pitched the film to Langley over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she says the movie's overarching plot "actually takes place on Earth, and then the character needs to go up to space to save the day.” Some scenes will include Cruise’s character walking outside of the space station itself, which will give the movie something other movies set in outer space have only been able to emulate.

“Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world to space. That’s the plan,” Langley told BBC. “We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that. Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

The as-of-yet-unnamed film was announced back in 2020, with Cruise and Limen’s collaboration being a major tentpole of the announcement. Cruise and Limen previously worked together as actor and director on Edge of Tomorrow and American Made.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Mission Impossible and Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise is set to star in a movie shot in space thanks to a partnership with NASA, and Universal wants to make him the “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

In an interview with BBC, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairwoman Donna Langley spoke about the project, which will have Cruise and the rest of the film crew take a rocket to the International Space Station to shoot parts of the movie in space.

Cruise and director Doug Liman pitched the film to Langley over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she says the movie's overarching plot "actually takes place on Earth, and then the character needs to go up to space to save the day.” Some scenes will include Cruise’s character walking outside of the space station itself, which will give the movie something other movies set in outer space have only been able to emulate.

“Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world to space. That’s the plan,” Langley told BBC. “We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that. Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

The as-of-yet-unnamed film was announced back in 2020, with Cruise and Limen’s collaboration being a major tentpole of the announcement. Cruise and Limen previously worked together as actor and director on Edge of Tomorrow and American Made.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned decades and several major Disney roles, has died. She was 96.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," Lansbury's family said in a statement, which was reported by NBC News.

Dame Angela Lansbury, a beloved actress known for her roles in Murder She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast, has died at the age of 96. pic.twitter.com/wNi02kdRW4

— IGN (@IGN) October 11, 2022

While Lansbury's most significant role was in the long-running Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996, she was known among younger audiences for her turn as Mrs. Potts in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Her role in that movie included singing the movie's title track, which is remembered as one of its most famous songs.

Born in 1925 in London, Lansbury moved to New York City in the 1940s. Her movie career spans 1944 to 2018, with her final appearance being Rose in Buttons, A New Musical Film.

Apart from Beauty and the Beast, Lansbury had several roles in Disney movies through the years, including Bedknocks and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins Returns. She also played the Dowager Empress Marie in 1997's Anastasia, and was the main villain in the original Manchurian Candidate.

George Takei was among those to pay tribute to Lansbury. And as MSNBC writer and editor Hayes Brown noted, she nailed Beauty and the Beast in one take. A perfectly sweet note on which to remember a legendary actress.

Angela Lansbury, who graced the stage for decades winning five Tony awards and brought the sleuthing Jessica Fletcher into our living rooms for a dozen years, has passed. A tale old as time, our beloved Mrs. Potts will sing lullabies to us now from the stars. Rest, great soul.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 11, 2022

Never forget that Angela Lansbury wasn’t sure she was the right person to sing the title song in “Beauty and the Beast” — and then nailed it in one takehttps://t.co/DVzWzY4iTj pic.twitter.com/CtRv18SJDT

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 11, 2022

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned decades and several major Disney roles, has died. She was 96.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," Lansbury's family said in a statement, which was reported by NBC News.

Dame Angela Lansbury, a beloved actress known for her roles in Murder She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast, has died at the age of 96. pic.twitter.com/wNi02kdRW4

— IGN (@IGN) October 11, 2022

While Lansbury's most significant role was in the long-running Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996, she was known among younger audiences for her turn as Mrs. Potts in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Her role in that movie included singing the movie's title track, which is remembered as one of its most famous songs.

Born in 1925 in London, Lansbury moved to New York City in the 1940s. Her movie career spans 1944 to 2018, with her final appearance being Rose in Buttons, A New Musical Film.

Apart from Beauty and the Beast, Lansbury had several roles in Disney movies through the years, including Bedknocks and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins Returns. She also played the Dowager Empress Marie in 1997's Anastasia, and was the main villain in the original Manchurian Candidate.

George Takei was among those to pay tribute to Lansbury. And as MSNBC writer and editor Hayes Brown noted, she nailed Beauty and the Beast in one take. A perfectly sweet note on which to remember a legendary actress.

Angela Lansbury, who graced the stage for decades winning five Tony awards and brought the sleuthing Jessica Fletcher into our living rooms for a dozen years, has passed. A tale old as time, our beloved Mrs. Potts will sing lullabies to us now from the stars. Rest, great soul.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 11, 2022

Never forget that Angela Lansbury wasn’t sure she was the right person to sing the title song in “Beauty and the Beast” — and then nailed it in one takehttps://t.co/DVzWzY4iTj pic.twitter.com/CtRv18SJDT

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 11, 2022

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Paddy Considine, the actor playing Viserys I Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon, spoke to GQ about embodying the character in the television adaptation, and revealed Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin told him he preferred his interpretation to the one he wrote in the books.

In the interview, Considine talked about how he interpreted Viserys as less passive than he was described in the books, and that he wanted the character to be more driven as a leader who desired peace.

“What I found really interesting about him was that he wasn't corrupted by power,” Considine told GQ. “He just wanted peace. He wanted people to be happy at the end of the day, but that makes him weak. So what would have made him more relatable, if he was a dictator? If he was a tyrant? Would that be more satisfying? It's not who he is.”

According to Considine, it took time for other members of the show’s production to get on board with his interpretation, but he also says Martin was so pleased with how Viserys’ live-action iteration turned out that he told the actor he portrayed the superior character in the end.

“I got a text message that simply said: ‘Your Viserys is better than my Viserys’," Considine said. "It was from George R. R. Martin. And I thought: that’ll do it. Thanks for trusting me.”

House of the Dragon is eight episodes into its 10-episode season. For more on the show, check out IGN’s review of the latest episode.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Paddy Considine, the actor playing Viserys I Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon, spoke to GQ about embodying the character in the television adaptation, and revealed Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin told him he preferred his interpretation to the one he wrote in the books.

In the interview, Considine talked about how he interpreted Viserys as less passive than he was described in the books, and that he wanted the character to be more driven as a leader who desired peace.

“What I found really interesting about him was that he wasn't corrupted by power,” Considine told GQ. “He just wanted peace. He wanted people to be happy at the end of the day, but that makes him weak. So what would have made him more relatable, if he was a dictator? If he was a tyrant? Would that be more satisfying? It's not who he is.”

According to Considine, it took time for other members of the show’s production to get on board with his interpretation, but he also says Martin was so pleased with how Viserys’ live-action iteration turned out that he told the actor he portrayed the superior character in the end.

“I got a text message that simply said: ‘Your Viserys is better than my Viserys’," Considine said. "It was from George R. R. Martin. And I thought: that’ll do it. Thanks for trusting me.”

House of the Dragon is eight episodes into its 10-episode season. For more on the show, check out IGN’s review of the latest episode.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Jonathan Majors may have already played Kang the Conqueror once in the Loki: Season 1 finale, but it's safe to say we've only seen one side of this complicated Marvel villain. Now Majors is offering more insight into his hopes for the role and why he wants Kang to be "an imposing figure" in future Marvel movies.

In an interview with Men's Health, Majors notes that Kang's complexity is what attracted him to the part originally.

“It was the character and dimensions of Kang [that drew him to the role]," Majors said. "And the potential that it had. I thought, I’ll take a chance on that.”

Majors specifically hopes to mold Kang into a nuanced, multi-layered villain over the coruse of the Multiverse Saga, specifically pointing to Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger and Josh Brolin's Thanos as sources of inspiration, though he also points out, "“Killmonger, Thanos, and Kang are not related, and that’s good for the MCU. It adds diversity.”

The article is also a chance for Majors to show off his impressive superhero movie physique. Majors makes it clear he knew putting on some extra muscle would be a requirement of joining the MCU, and looked to the role as an opportunity for personal growth.

“I look at Kang and I go, Okay, cool. It’s a certain IP where people expect this at a bare minimum,” Majors said. “No one should put themselves or their families in a place where they’re hurting, but your own discomfort is not necessarily a bad thing. That’s growth. It’s not comfortable, but you’re here to save the world, aren’t you? Or take over the world.”

Majors' strength and conditioning coach Jamie Sawyer also weighed in on the training process, revealing that the goal for Kang is less to present him as a sleek, musclular supervillain than to paint a portrait of a hardened warrior who has traveled the timestream and trained with the best warriors of every era.

“He is the warrior version of Kang, so there was a focus on what that warrior would look like who’s been around through the ages and has developed every type of combat skill,” Sawyer said. “It was about making him look like an imposing figure.”

Majors will return as a new version of Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which his theaters on February 17, 2023. Marvel fans at D23 got an early look at the sequel via a new teaser, though that footage has yet to be released online. Director Peyton Reed teases that Quantumania will be "a hard left turn" for the series, balancing the Lang family dynamic with the threat posed by Kang.

Majors is also expected to be the lead villain in 2025's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which will be directed by Shang-Chi's Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Quantumania's Jeff Loveness.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Jonathan Majors may have already played Kang the Conqueror once in the Loki: Season 1 finale, but it's safe to say we've only seen one side of this complicated Marvel villain. Now Majors is offering more insight into his hopes for the role and why he wants Kang to be "an imposing figure" in future Marvel movies.

In an interview with Men's Health, Majors notes that Kang's complexity is what attracted him to the part originally.

“It was the character and dimensions of Kang [that drew him to the role]," Majors said. "And the potential that it had. I thought, I’ll take a chance on that.”

Majors specifically hopes to mold Kang into a nuanced, multi-layered villain over the coruse of the Multiverse Saga, specifically pointing to Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger and Josh Brolin's Thanos as sources of inspiration, though he also points out, "“Killmonger, Thanos, and Kang are not related, and that’s good for the MCU. It adds diversity.”

The article is also a chance for Majors to show off his impressive superhero movie physique. Majors makes it clear he knew putting on some extra muscle would be a requirement of joining the MCU, and looked to the role as an opportunity for personal growth.

“I look at Kang and I go, Okay, cool. It’s a certain IP where people expect this at a bare minimum,” Majors said. “No one should put themselves or their families in a place where they’re hurting, but your own discomfort is not necessarily a bad thing. That’s growth. It’s not comfortable, but you’re here to save the world, aren’t you? Or take over the world.”

Majors' strength and conditioning coach Jamie Sawyer also weighed in on the training process, revealing that the goal for Kang is less to present him as a sleek, musclular supervillain than to paint a portrait of a hardened warrior who has traveled the timestream and trained with the best warriors of every era.

“He is the warrior version of Kang, so there was a focus on what that warrior would look like who’s been around through the ages and has developed every type of combat skill,” Sawyer said. “It was about making him look like an imposing figure.”

Majors will return as a new version of Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which his theaters on February 17, 2023. Marvel fans at D23 got an early look at the sequel via a new teaser, though that footage has yet to be released online. Director Peyton Reed teases that Quantumania will be "a hard left turn" for the series, balancing the Lang family dynamic with the threat posed by Kang.

Majors is also expected to be the lead villain in 2025's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which will be directed by Shang-Chi's Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Quantumania's Jeff Loveness.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Avengers: Secret Wars, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four have all been delayed amid a substantial scheduling shakeup for the MCU.

Disney confirmed a raft of new dates following reports that work had been paused on Blade. Here's the full list.

• Chevalier: April 27, 2023
• A Haunting in Venice: September 15, 2023
• Blade: September 6, 2024 (previously November 3, 2023)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: May 24, 2024
• Untitled Deadpool Movie: November 8, 2024 (previously September 6, 2024)
• Fantastic Four: February 14, 2025 (previously November 8, 2024)
• Untitle Marvel Movie: November 7, 2025 (previously February 14, 2025)
• Avengers: Secret Wars: May 1, 2026 (previously November 7, 2025)
• Untitled Marvel Movie 2: Removed from schedule (previously May 1, 2026)

This has the practical effect of pushing back the start of MCU's Phase 6, which was slated to begin with Fantastic Four in 2024. It now means that Phase 6, likely to be the biggest ever for the MCU, will begin in early 2025 and conclude in 2026.

With Phase 4 still underway, we've only heard snippets so far of these upcoming films. We know that WandaVision director Matt Shakman will be helming Fantastic Four, and that Michael Waldron [Doctor Strange 2 and Loki] will be writing Avengers: Secret Wars. Elsewhere, Ryan Reynolds has been teasing the new Deadpool film, which will feature the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

The delays appear to have been spurred at least in part by Blade, which recently lost its director. Earlier today, reports emerged that Marvel was delaying the start of production to further develop the film amid a search for a new director.

The next MCU movie is Wakanda Forever, which is slated for release on November 11. You can find our full schedule of movie releases here.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Avengers: Secret Wars, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four have all been delayed amid a substantial scheduling shakeup for the MCU.

Disney confirmed a raft of new dates following reports that work had been paused on Blade. Here's the full list.

• Chevalier: April 27, 2023
• A Haunting in Venice: September 15, 2023
• Blade: September 6, 2024 (previously November 3, 2023)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: May 24, 2024
• Untitled Deadpool Movie: November 8, 2024 (previously September 6, 2024)
• Fantastic Four: February 14, 2025 (previously November 8, 2024)
• Untitle Marvel Movie: November 7, 2025 (previously February 14, 2025)
• Avengers: Secret Wars: May 1, 2026 (previously November 7, 2025)
• Untitled Marvel Movie 2: Removed from schedule (previously May 1, 2026)

This has the practical effect of pushing back the start of MCU's Phase 6, which was slated to begin with Fantastic Four in 2024. It now means that Phase 6, likely to be the biggest ever for the MCU, will begin in early 2025 and conclude in 2026.

With Phase 4 still underway, we've only heard snippets so far of these upcoming films. We know that WandaVision director Matt Shakman will be helming Fantastic Four, and that Michael Waldron [Doctor Strange 2 and Loki] will be writing Avengers: Secret Wars. Elsewhere, Ryan Reynolds has been teasing the new Deadpool film, which will feature the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

The delays appear to have been spurred at least in part by Blade, which recently lost its director. Earlier today, reports emerged that Marvel was delaying the start of production to further develop the film amid a search for a new director.

The next MCU movie is Wakanda Forever, which is slated for release on November 11. You can find our full schedule of movie releases here.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.