Kristen Stewart To Play Astronaut Sally Ride As Amazon MGM Studios Nears Limited Series Deal For ‘The Challenger’; Amblin, Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing EPs With Stewart; Maggie Cohn Writing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Kristen Stewart will make her TV series-starring debut in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space.
She did this as part of a NASA space shuttle astronaut class of 1978 that was the first to be diversified and not comprised of all white men.
Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions developed and brought the project to Amblin and is executive producing with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and Stewart through the latter’s Nevermind production label.
Amblin’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey are also exec producers. Maggie Cohn will serve as the writer and showrunner; her credits include American Crime Story, The Staircase and Narcos: Mexico.
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