'Final Orbit' scifi film set on ISS

[jefferiestubes8]

John Moore of “Max Payne” fame, will direct “Final Orbit”, a little story of space tourists that can stranded aboard the “Tourist Module” (maybe they’ll call that Colbert) on board the International Space Station.
There’s an accident and they alone must science their way to survival after I would guess the real astronauts or cosmonauts get sucked into space after an accident.
Gale Anne Hurd’s (Terminator(s), Tremors, Abyss) Valhalla Pictures will produce. Thanks ComingSoon for the tip.

http://www.scificool.com/john-moore-to-direct-final-orbit/

Sounds like Apollo 13 (1995) but with rich regular Joes as our cast of characters. Surely some scientist will still be with them too... Well at least Gale Anne Hurd was a producer on Armageddon (1998)...

 

[Lindley]

Darn, not based on the book of the same name?

Even if they did make the book, it would require some updating due to the loss of Columbia....

 

[Christopher]

Hmp. If it were filmed on the ISS, then I'd be impressed.

 

[Pingfah]

Max Payne was an awful film, so was the Omen remake. Behind Enemy Lines was OKish and I haven't seen Flight of the Phoenix, but i'm not impressed with this guy's pedigree.

 

[Deckerd]

How is a group of tourists getting stranded on the ISS like Apollo 13?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

How is a group of tourists getting stranded on the ISS like Apollo 13?

Only from the description in the blog post it sounds like it's a survival film since the title is 'Final Orbit'.

Well and this that I just found:

Final Orbit, a sci-fi thriller based on the graphic novel adapted by Phil De Blasi & Byron Willinger, about lottery winners who are vacationing on the International Space Station when it is damaged and they find themselves trapped.

http://scifiwire.com/2010/02/news-briefs-final-orbit-d.php

Sure you'll have the 20 minute character introduction and setup to some 'accident' that takes another 10 minutes of screen time and then it will just become a survival film...

Unlike the realism of Apollo 13 somehow I think it will be a very stylized look inside the ISS and not like the two tours of the ISS we've seen here 2010 HD tour:
HD video tour of international space station
and 2009 tour here:
NASA ASTRONAUT LEADS TOUR OF SPACE STATION IN HD

To me the closest feature film that looked like the ISS was the interior of Mars II ship in
Mission to Mars (2000). Sure it's pretty large inside but the lighting is very accurate.
The interior of their World Space Station in Mission to Mars was like a Star Trek interior ship really and totally unrealistic for a story set in the next 50 years.

Edit to add:

Final Orbit tells the story of a group of lottery winners that win a prize to travel to the International Space Station. While onboard the Iss, an accident leaves the vacationers stranded, inches away from the vacuum of space and without the aid of any astronauts.

http://coronacomingattractions.com/news/final-orbit-found-director
Nine pages of artwork for the project can be viewed at ComicSpace
http://www.comicspace.com/ian_richa...earch_type=comics&terms=final+orbit&search=Go

Of course the nine pages show a massive ISS that looks more like the Nostromo ship in Alien (1979) with huge living areas.

The graphic novel, which was originally slated for release by Platinum Studios Comics in early 2009, still is unavailable.

Sounds like Lost meets Apollo 13. Hurd had also been quoted as saying that Final Orbit has “all of the classic cat-and-mouse, edge-of-your-seat elements to be a fantastic white-knuckle thriller.”

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/17/john-moore-to-direct-final-orbit/
Guess I was on the money.

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[TheMasterOfOrion]

Max Payne was an awful film, so was the Omen remake.

Agreed, but the scifi addict in me will force me to check this out regardless of those imdb stinkers

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Maybe it'll be more like Home Alone in space. "I made my astronauts disappear!" (Face slap) "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

 

[gastrof]

John Moore of “Max Payne” fame, will direct “Final Orbit”, a little story of space tourists that can stranded aboard the “Tourist Module” (maybe they’ll call that Colbert) on board the International Space Station.
There’s an accident and they alone must science their way to survival after I would guess the real astronauts or cosmonauts get sucked into space after an accident.
Gale Anne Hurd’s (Terminator(s), Tremors, Abyss) Valhalla Pictures will produce. Thanks ComingSoon for the tip.

I don't mean to be picky, but what in the world is this? What language is it? The tourists "can" stranded? And using the word "science" as a verb?

Where in the world did this come from? Is it even real?

 

[Deckerd]

Neroon will be along in a minute to applaud you.

 

[Mistral]

Sounds like a rip on the John Nance novel Orbit. Great little tale-give it a spin.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

This also reminds me of the 80's kids' film Space Camp, in which several kids are accidentally stranded in an orbitting space shuttle, and must use what they learned at the space camp they attended to survive.

 

[firehawk12]

Oh man, I thought this was going to be shot on the ISS for a second.