Amazon has officially greenlit its Kristen Stewart-led astronaut series.
Two years after Deadline revealed that the Twilight star was attached to play astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman to fly in space, the streamer has handed The Challenger a limited series order.
The Challenger comes from Maggie Cohn (The Staircase), who will write, exec produce and serve as showrunner.
Based on Meredith E. Bagby’s 2023 book The New Guys, it was initially developed at Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions, which will produce alongside Stewart’s Nevermind label and Amblin Television.
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Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler will exec produce for Big Swing Productions, Stewart, Dylan Meyer, and Maggie McLean will exec produce for Nevermind and Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will exec produce for Amblin Television alongside Cohn, Bagby and James Hawes, who directs.
Ride became the first American
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