Overview
- On Tuesday, Will Arnett was announced to play NASA official George Abbey opposite Kristen Stewart in the limited series The Challenger.
- Kristen Stewart is attached to portray astronaut Sally Ride in what outlets call her first major TV role, a casting set earlier when Amazon picked up the series.
- Maggie Cohn is the creator and showrunner and James Hawes will direct with executive producers from Big Swing Productions, Amblin Television, and Nevermind Pictures attached.
- The show adapts Meredith E. Bagby’s book The New Guys and will dramatize the events leading up to the 1986 Challenger disaster and the Rogers Commission investigation with no release date yet.
- The series centers both on Ride’s personal and professional journey as the first American woman in space and on NASA’s institutional decisions, a focus that raises sensitivity about accuracy and survivors’ perspectives as the project advances.