In an interview, director of a new IMAX documentary revealed that astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) in low earth orbit have been filming the movie to deliver stunning images of space. According to the director, the film will be released next year.

During the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) interview on March 4, filmmaker Toni Myers talked about her new project. About two years ago, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and IMAX had announced to work together with the United States space agency to make a film that will provide beautiful and breathtaking views of earth from space.

Myers told a NASA commentator at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville that the project is about earth and future on it and off it. “We have a long history, IMAX does, of taking pictures in orbit and the station is the best platform we know for studying the changes that are occurring to our planet right now”, Myers added.

The movie has been titled ‘A Perfect Planet’. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts of NASA were the first crew members who were trained to take turn behind the camera. About the crew, Myers said that they have been doing a wonderful job. Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts have taken beautiful images of the planet which have deluged everyone.

Wilmore had arrived at the space station in September last year and since then he has been filming scenes for the film. On March 10, he will hand off command of the space station to Virts. Next day, Russian Soyuz spacecraft will return back to earth. Virts will stay on-orbit through May.

According to reports, Scott Kelly will start a year-long expedition on the ISS later this month. Myers said Kelly is next trained crew to go up. After Scott, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui from Japan will be next crew members. According to Kelly, it was great fun to train all those guys.