Will Arnett Joins Kristen Stewart In ‘The Challenger’ 1980s NASA Limited Series For Prime Video

Will Arnett is group to prima other Kristen Stewart successful Prime Video‘s constricted series The Challenger.

Created by Maggie Cohn and inspired by Meredith E. Bagby’s book The New Guys, nan bid chronicles nan events starring up to nan 1986 Challenger disaster, nan investigation that followed, and Sally Ride’s groundbreaking travel arsenic nan first American female successful space.

In her TV debut, Stewart plays astronaut and physicist Ride. Arnett will play George Abbey who, arsenic Director of Flight Crew Operations for NASA’s Space Shuttle, assigned Ride to nan unit of 1983’s STS-7.

The Challenger is from Big Swing Productions, Amblin Television, and Nevermind Pictures. James Hawes (Slow Horses, Black Mirror) directs and executive produces. Cohn is writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Also executive producing are Kyra Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler for Big Swing Productions; Bagby; Stewart, Dylan Meyer, and Maggie McLean for Nevermind Pictures; and Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television.

Arnett astir precocious starred successful Bradley Cooper’s film Is This Thing On? opposite Laura Dern. He will adjacent co-star successful Tony Gilroy’s upcoming movie Behemoth! opposite Pedro Pascal. Arnett, a seven-time Emmy nominee for Arrested Development and 30 Rock, co-hosts nan celebrated podcast SmartLess pinch Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes. He is repped by CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.