I believe this is intended to beat America to the punch on a "movie filmed in space". Tom Cruise has been planning his own movie filmed in space for a couple y

I believe this is intended to beat America to the punch on a "movie filmed in space". Tom Cruise has been planning his own movie filmed in space for a couple years and the Russians like to win space races when they can. Also now they have the "first" one. That sells. Tom Cruise will be relegated to "second movie shot in space".