{"id":484682,"date":"2026-03-19T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484682\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:26:11","slug":"kristen-stewarts-the-challenger-series-lands-greenlight-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484682\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart\u2019s \u2018The Challenger\u2019 Series Lands Greenlight At Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmazon<\/a> has officially greenlit its Kristen Stewart<\/a>-led astronaut series.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo years after Deadline revealed <\/a>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> a limited series order.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Challenger comes from Maggie Cohn (The Staircase), who will write, exec produce and serve as showrunner.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Meredith E. Bagby\u2019s 2023 book\u00a0The New Guys, it was initially developed at Kyra Sedgwick<\/a>\u2019s Big Swing Productions, which will produce alongside Stewart\u2019s Nevermind label and Amblin Television.<\/p>\n

\n\tSedgwick 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tRide became the first American woman to fly into space in 1978. She was later on the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, which happened on January 28, 1986, killing seven crew members.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Challenger\u00a0tells the story of one of the most defining moments in space history, both the unprecedented events leading up to the tragedy, and the shocking investigation that followed. As the members of the 1986 Rogers Commission interrogate the complex inner workings of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to find what, or who, was responsible for the Challenger\u2019s doomed fate, the show explores Commission member Ride\u2019s personal journey. It follows her, and the rest of the diverse Astronaut Class of \u201978, through the ranks of the shuttle program, through initial recruitment and training, professional and personal highs and lows, until her historic glass ceiling moment as she becomes the first American woman in space.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMeredith, Valerie, and I at Big Swing have been passionately developing this project since 2017, and we are thrilled to be partnering with Amblin and Amazon MGM Studios. There is no one better than Maggie Cohn to bring to life the complex story of the Challenger and the new class of astronauts recruited by NASA in the early 1970s, all through the eyes of an American hero, Sally Ride,\u201d said Sedgwick.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSally Ride\u2019s courage and brilliance changed history, and we couldn\u2019t imagine a more powerful actor to bring her story to life than Kristen Stewart,\u201d added Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television, Amazon MGM Studios. \u201cThe Challenger\u00a0is an inspiring story about breaking barriers, and we\u2019re thrilled to collaborate with Big Swing Productions, Amblin Television, Nevermind Pictures, Maggie Cohn, and James Hawes to share it with our global Prime Video audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal was brokered by WME, representing Amblin Television and Stewart, and CAA, representing Sedgwick, Big Swing Productions, and Cohn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has officially greenlit its Kristen Stewart-led astronaut series. Two years after Deadline revealed that the Twilight star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2151,6491,96,68496,123256,172035,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-484682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amazon","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kristen-stewart","tag-kyra-sedgwick","tag-the-challenger","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}