Things are heating up with the new NASA drama series “The Challenger,” as the project over at Amblin Television and Prime Video has now added Canadian actor Will Arnett (“Is This Thing On?”) to take a key role opposite Kristen Stewart (“Underwater,” “Crimes of the Future”), as the show is expected to explore the events surrounding The Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986 with Stewart protraying American astronaunt Sally Ride.
This will mark Stewart’s first major TV role with the streaming series, and should be one to keep an eye on. As pointed out in the casting update from The Hollywood Reporter, “The Challenger” is created, written, and showrun by Maggie Cohn (“The Staircase,” “Impeachment: American Crime Story”), which is an adaptation of the 2023 book “The New Guys” by Meredith E. Bagby.
It will focus on “the events leading up to the Challenger disaster, the investigation that followed, and Sally Ride’s (Stewart) groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space.” Arnett is set to play the role of NASA official George Abbey in the streaming project.
The producing team assembled for the NASA drama features Cohn, director James Hawes, Kyra Sedgwick & Valerie Stadler at Big Swing Productions (developed Bagby’s book for television), Bagby, Stewart, Dylan Meyer, Maggie McLean for Nevermind Pictures, along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin.
Another tantalizing project Stewart is involved with the Panos Cosmatos-directed ’80s-set vampire thriller “Flesh of the Gods,” which she’ll be starring alongside Wagner Moura (“The Secret Agent”) Esmé Creed-Miles (“A Head Full of Ghosts”), Roland Møller (“Citadel,” “Atomic Blonde”), and Alba Baptista (“Voltron”) that had recently landed at A24.
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