Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said in an interview with TASS on board of
the International Space Station (ISS) that he planned to make a movie about
the ‘no-money world’ after his future trip to the Moon.
"I want to shoot movies about the no-money world. My explanation is not good
so, people cannot understand what I imagine, so maybe I need a movie for
understanding these things," he said.
"In 2023, I will go on the flight to the Moon…, go to space again, and maybe
after that," Maezawa replied to a question about when his film should be
expected to hit the screens. "In 2025 or 2026."
Maezawa said in an interview with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin that
the movie would serve to convey an idea about getting rid of money.
"Certainly, money will disappear from our world. We can imagine that,"
Maezawa stated.
"I think, and you think maybe the world should be a better place and money
is an enemy of the people, so money should disappear too," he continued.
"And if money disappears, maybe every kind of war will also disappear and
all crime [is] caused by money. So, money will disappear from this world,
and every [type of] crime will also disappear. I think."
"I imagine [that in] a no-money world, people will work for people," the
Japanese billionaire said. "Almost every person is working for money now,
unfortunately, but in a no-money world people will work for people."
On the morning of December 20, a Soyuz MS-20 descent module carrying
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Maezawa and his business assistant
Yozo Hirano successfully landed in Kazakhstan. Due to unfavorable weather
conditions, helicopters remained grounded in the Kazakh city of Jezkazgan
while rescue teams reached the landing site and the descent module on motor
vehicles.
The evacuation effort involved special search and evacuation transport and
later a helicopter flew to the site and airlifted the crewmembers to
Jezkazgan where they boarded an An-26 plane to fly first to Karaganda and
then to the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow.
Misurkin, Maezawa, and Hirano had been on the ISS since December 8. On the
same day, an epoch-making news office commenced its work aboard the ISS
thanks to a memorandum of cooperation signed between the world-renowned TASS
Russian News Agency and Roscosmos on November 17. Under the milestone
agreement, Roscosmos cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Alexander Misurkin became the
first TASS correspondent in space.
He reported on the space station’s daily routine and communicated with
scientists responsible for scientific experiments aboard the orbital
outpost. His latest information from space is available to the agency’s
readership from TASS' news resources. In addition, his photo and video
contributions can be seen on the agency’s website and official social media
pages.
The full text of the interview is available at:
https://tass.com/science/1382773.