A limited series about astronaut Sally Ride, with Kristen Stewart in the lead role, has officially been cleared for launch at Prime Video.
The Amazon-owned streamer has formally greenlit the drama, called The Challenger, after nearly two years in development. The series, inspired by Meredith E. Bagby’s 2023 book The New Guys, comes from Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions, Amblin Television, and Stewart’s Nevermind Pictures. Maggie Cohn (The Staircase, Impeachment: American Crime Story) adapted the book and serves as showrunner, and James Hawes (Slow Horses) will direct.
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The Challenger will be Stewart’s (Spencer, the Twilight films) first lead role in a TV or streaming series. The series will chronicle Ride’s path to becoming the first American woman in space and later her role on the commission investigating the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.
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