Philip Kaufman changed the way we look at astronaut dramas with legendary historical pic The Right Stuff. Now the director will be taking a long, hard stare at a more tragic part of US space history with Challenger
The film will star Good Night, And Good Luck’s David Strathairn as scientist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, who was part of the team leading the investigation into 1986’s space shuttle disaster.
Written by Nicole Perlman, the movie is described as taking a look at the probe and the man involved in the same way that The Insider chronicled Jeffrey Wigand’s whistle-blowing role in the tobacco world.