# New orbiting film studio to be built in space **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127 "2022-01-20T20:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127/21 "2022-01-22T00:03:01Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Also worth mentioning, over the last few decades there have been amazing advances in CGI. So, do we NEED to go to space to portray it in a movie/TV show? I say, yes. I haven’t seen any convincing CGI that replicates weightlessness. And who says we need it. Maybe ‘want’ is enough. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127/22 "2022-01-22T00:06:39Z")
I suspect this will end up like the 1970s _King Kong_ where they spent most of the budget building a fifty foot robot Kong which proved so unwieldy it only got about two minutes of screen time while the rest was filmed the old fashioned way (with a monkey suit). I suspect Tom and Co. will quickly discover that filming in zero-G is not just expensive but also very difficult as well as less realistic-looking than the way it’s been done up to now. A minute or two of the space studio scenes will be included in the final product just to save face. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127/23 "2022-01-22T00:49:18Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > How long before some high profile celeb dies in transit and puts a damper on this kind of thing? Celebs don’t worry about this kind of thing. For example have you noticed how many celebs have died in skiing accidents? Yet lots of them still go skiing. > **[List of skiing deaths](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_skiing_deaths)** > > This is a list of skiing deaths of notable people, in chronological order, and includes skiers and snowboarders both professional and recreational whose deaths are due to accidents or avalanches. > All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships,... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127/24 "2022-01-22T01:01:28Z")
I have a feeling this isn’t going to go over well with the IATSE membership. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127/25 "2022-01-22T03:32:58Z")
Not quite as crazy as I thought from reading the title, but has any space project ever stuck to its optimistic time schedule? I’d give better odds of the Dope lasting until December 2024 than I would of the module launching then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orbiting-film-studio-to-be-built-in-space/958127.md?page=1)