MOSCOW, 12 Apr. Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst said at the premiere of the film The Challenge that the team is ready to shoot the second part of the film, given that Russia will continue to develop its lunar program.
The premiere of the film was held in the Kremlin on Cosmonautics Day. Ernst is one of her producers.
«We're ready to shoot Challenge 2,» he said.
Luna, Ernst said that it would again be Julia Peresild. Whether the president saw the film or some excerpts from it, he did not say.
Peresild herself said that she was ready to consider the offer to film on the Moon. This needs to be discussed,» she told reporters, adding that it all depends on the script.
«The Challenge» is the first feature film shot in space aboard the ISS. As part of the project, on October 5, 2021, the first in history went into orbit film crew — actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and Roskosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.There were 53 filming shifts as part of the ground filming unit, three of them in the Il-76 MDK weightless laboratory aircraft.12 filming shifts took place on the ISS.