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Amazon has officially greenlit its Kristen Stewart-led astronaut series.
Two years aft Deadline revealed that nan Twilight prima was attached to play astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, nan first U.S. female to alert successful space, nan streamer has handed The Challenger a constricted bid order.
The Challenger comes from Maggie Cohn (The Staircase), who will write, exec nutrient and service arsenic showrunner.
Based connected Meredith E. Bagby’s 2023 book The New Guys, it was initially developed astatine Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions, which will nutrient alongside Stewart’s Nevermind explanation and Amblin Television.
Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler will exec nutrient for Big Swing Productions, Stewart, Dylan Meyer, and Maggie McLean will exec nutrient for Nevermind and Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will exec nutrient for Amblin Television alongside Cohn, Bagby and James Hawes, who directs.
Ride became nan first American female to alert into abstraction successful 1978. She was later connected nan Presidential Commission connected nan Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, which happened connected January 28, 1986, sidesplitting 7 unit members.
The Challenger tells nan communicative of 1 of nan astir defining moments successful abstraction history, some nan unprecedented events starring up to nan tragedy, and nan shocking investigation that followed. As nan members of nan 1986 Rogers Commission interrogate nan analyzable soul workings of nan National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to find what, aliases who, was responsible for nan Challenger’s doomed fate, nan show explores Commission personnel Ride’s individual journey. It travel her, and nan remainder of nan divers Astronaut Class of ’78, done nan ranks of nan shuttle program, done first recruitment and training, master and individual highs and lows, until her historical solid ceiling infinitesimal arsenic she becomes nan first American female successful space.
“Meredith, Valerie, and I astatine Big Swing person been passionately processing this task since 2017, and we are thrilled to beryllium partnering pinch Amblin and Amazon MGM Studios. There is nary 1 amended than Maggie Cohn to bring to life nan analyzable communicative of nan Challenger and nan caller people of astronauts recruited by NASA successful nan early 1970s, each done nan eyes of an American hero, Sally Ride,” said Sedgwick.
“Sally Ride’s courageousness and brilliance changed history, and we couldn’t ideate a much powerful character to bring her communicative to life than Kristen Stewart,” added Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television, Amazon MGM Studios. “The Challenger is an inspiring communicative astir breaking barriers, and we’re thrilled to collaborate pinch Big Swing Productions, Amblin Television, Nevermind Pictures, Maggie Cohn, and James Hawes to stock it pinch our world Prime Video audience.”
The woody was brokered by WME, representing Amblin Television and Stewart, and CAA, representing Sedgwick, Big Swing Productions, and Cohn.
