Sheduled for release on April 20, "The Challenge" will be the first film of its kind, with the actors and director being sent up to space for the production, according to the Daily Mail.

Tom Cruise was hoping to capture this milestone with a project scheduled to be directed by Edge of Tomorrow's Doug Liman, with the help of Elon Musk's SpaceX and NASA in 2020. However, the project has not yet taken to the skies. 

The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that it had hired the services of actress Yulia Peresild for the massive project, who plays a cardiac surgeon tasked with rocketing to the ISS to save an astronaut's life.