The director and lead actress of what will become the first feature-length
fictional film shot in space are set to blast off next week, on October 5.
The movie, titled “The Challenge,” is about a surgeon who finds herself
dispatched to the International Space Station in order to save a cosmonaut’s
life, according to the NYT.
The plan, as it stands right now, is to send actress Yukia Peresild, who
plays the doctor, and director Klim Shipenko to the Russian portion of the
space station for 10 days, according to the NYT. There, Peresild’s lack of
real-world experience in spaceflight is expected to convey the horror,
challenges, and awe-inspiring experience of an everyday person having to
suddenly journey to space.
The impromptu mission will also put Russia ahead of the US when it comes to
each country’s goals to shoot a film in orbit, and it’s not clear how much
of the motivation for the mission came from wanting to claim that
distinction.
Cinematic Realism
Turning the real space station into a film set will certainly create a more
authentic portrayal of life in orbit than other science-fiction movies, but
as Flinders University space studies expert Alice Gorman points out in
IFLScience, there will still be some elements of the film that push the
boundaries of real science.
Namely, Peresild’s character will need to perform surgery, which is
something that’s only ever been conducted on animals for the sake of
experimentation while in orbit. It’s not clear what the fictional surgery
setup will look like — or if those scenes will filmed on the space station
versus a set back on Earth — but it will be interesting to see how
fictionalized medicine blends with the ordeals of actually shooting in
space.
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