I say, yes. I haven’t seen any convincing CGI that replicates weightlessness. And who says we need it. Maybe ‘want’ is enough.
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.
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.
I have a feeling this isn’t going to go over well with the IATSE membership.
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.