Deadline Launches Deadline Now: Tom Cruise’s Movie Shot In Space Is Budgeted At $200 Million, And That’s A Steal

Some stories are best told visually.

With that in mind, Deadline today launches Deadline Now, a regular video series that will reveal a different side of the stories our readers care most about. It will explore everything from castings to COVID, ratings to firings, and late-night TV to the latest breaking news. The project’s driving imperative will be visual storytelling.

Deadline Now is spearheaded by Deadline reporter and New Hollywood podcast co-host Amanda N’Duka.

Our debut Deadline Now reveals that Tom Cruise, director Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie have secured a $200 million commitment from Universal to film where no one has ever filmed before: in space. For details on their seemingly impossible mission, check out the video above.