Film gives stars the space to shine
China DailyActress Yulia Peresild meets with Chinese science popularizers in Beijing on March 12. Du says that Shipenko has had a passion for space stories for years, recalling that the director previously helmed the 2017 movie Salyut-7, a nerve-wracking space movie adapted from the true story of two cosmonauts who fixed the damaged space station in 1985. In 2020, Hollywood star Tom Cruise, alongside director Doug Liman, was reported to be planning to film in space with the aid of Elon Musk's SpaceX program. When Du met the director during the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival held in Xiamen, Fujian province, in November last year, the Chinese producer asked if the director had really seen the Great Wall from the ISS, as the depiction of spacemen observing the iconic Chinese fortification has been etched into the minds of generations of Chinese from their school textbooks. With the movie garnering 8.0 points out of 10 on the major review aggregator Douban, Du estimates The Challenge may become an inspirational example, leading to a greater influx of Russian movies to Chinese mainland theaters.
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