re: The Right Stuff: The Television Series (Now coming to Disney+)

It sounds like they're just re-hashing the movie with no-name actors

The Right Stuff is sacrosanct to me

Unless it delves deeper into the book, I just don't see the point

Very skeptical

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Beyond the "But why?" and casting, my big concern is that I just watched The Hot Zone Ebola series on National Geo and it was very poorly done.

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Because the story of those brave early explorers of outer space should be told and re-told for every new generation. The Right Stuff is a classic film, one of my favorites, but I'm in a small minority of milennials who have actually even heard of it, let alone seen it.

Remaking the book into an eight episode series, and launching it on Disney+, will do wonders for its viewership footprint. If it does well the showrunners have said they will expand the series all the way through Apollo.

I can get on board with that.