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The Right Stuff (2020) Disney+ astronaut series [Sneak Peak]
Posted on 7/28/20 at 8:49 am
Posted on 7/28/20 at 8:49 am
Disney+ had a panel for their remake of The Right Stuff during Virtual Comic-Con and released the following clip from episode one of the series:
The Right Stuff - Shepard Is Late
Here is the show's official synopsis:
The Right Stuff - Shepard Is Late
Here is the show's official synopsis:
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At the height of the Cold War in 1959, the Soviet Union dominates the space race. To combat a national sentiment of fear and decline, the U.S. government conceives of NASA’s Project Mercury, igniting a space race with the Soviets and making instant celebrities of a handful of the military’s most accomplished test pilots. These individuals, who come to be known as the Mercury Seven, are forged into heroes long before they have achieved a single heroic act. The nation’s best engineers estimate they need several decades to make it into outer space. They are given two years.
The astronauts’ strengths are equaled only by their flaws. As the men succumb to the temptations that surround them, Project Mercury threatens to come apart. At the heart of the historic drama populated by deeply human characters are two men who become icons — Glenn and Shepard — as they jockey to be the first man in space. The entire program is nearly brought to its knees by their intense rivalry.
The series also follows NASA’s engineers, who work against the clock as pressures mount from Washington and a transfixed public. And we witness the underbelly of a myth-making propaganda machine headed by NASA’s PR department and aided by the writers and editors at LIFE Magazine.
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Posted on 7/28/20 at 8:55 am to RollTide1987
This is a risky project as we have already had the seminal film. It will forever be compared to it and that's a high bar to clear.
Plus, I fear the retconned #Wokeness that will pervade the project, although that may be unfounded.
Plus, I fear the retconned #Wokeness that will pervade the project, although that may be unfounded.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 8:59 am to Ace Midnight
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This is a risky project as we have already had the seminal film.
The film is definitely in my Top 15 favorite movies of all-time, but I feel as if a "remake" as it were is the best way to get the story of America's original astronauts back out into the nation's consciousness. The fact that it's premiering on Disney+ makes it all the more better. The timing is (sadly) impeccable as Rene Carpenter, widow of astronaut Scott Carpenter, became the last spouse of the original Mercury Seven to pass away. That means our final link to this era in our history has now left us, making shows like The Right Stuff one of the few ways we can reconnect to that moment in time.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 9:14 am to Ace Midnight
I didn’t know they were doing this. If its even half as good as the movie it will be great. I just hope they don’t do the modern disney thing and make half the people at mission control multi-race crossdressers
Posted on 7/28/20 at 9:18 am to RollTide1987
That clip was not very good
Posted on 7/28/20 at 9:18 am to RollTide1987
The New Nine is down to 4:
Borman, Lovell, McDivitt and Stafford
All are in their 90s except Stafford who will be in about 8 weeks.
The 14 are down to 6, too (although they 4 in the 1960s alone, 3 in T-38 crashes and Roger in Apollo 1.)
Borman, Lovell, McDivitt and Stafford
All are in their 90s except Stafford who will be in about 8 weeks.
The 14 are down to 6, too (although they 4 in the 1960s alone, 3 in T-38 crashes and Roger in Apollo 1.)
Posted on 7/28/20 at 9:18 am to RollTide1987
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The Right Stuff - Shepard Is Late
Could be a great series, but something the film did well that was instantly apparent was that the cast closely resembled the actual astronauts. If you looked at the movie Mercury 7, you could pretty easily pick out who was supposed to be who.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 9:20 am to Ace Midnight
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Plus, I fear the retconned #Wokeness that will pervade the project, although that may be unfounded.
I hope its unfounded. But its Disney...
Posted on 7/28/20 at 9:30 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Could be a great series, but something the film did well that was instantly apparent was that the cast closely resembled the actual astronauts.
Yes and no. Ed Harris and Scott Glenn most definitely resembled their real-life counterparts (John Glenn and Alan Shepard respectively) but the rest were hit and miss.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 10:02 am to RollTide1987
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Yes and no. Ed Harris and Scott Glenn most definitely resembled their real-life counterparts (John Glenn and Alan Shepard respectively) but the rest were hit and miss.
Fred Ward was a pretty good match for Gus Grissom:
Posted on 7/28/20 at 10:19 am to RollTide1987
The book was excellent and I enjoyed the movie. I have no doubt Disney will sanitize this series. Several years later the movie came out and I was very interested to see if Chuck Yeager would be given a mention.
He got more than a mention and today is still going strong:
He got more than a mention and today is still going strong:
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Yeager prides his speech to the Society of Test Pilots that the first rider in the Mercury development program would be a monkey, not a real test pilot, and Wolfe plays this drama out on the angst felt by the Mercury Astronauts over those remarks. Yeager himself downplayed the theory of "the right stuff", attributing his survival of potential catastrophes to simply knowing his airplane thoroughly, along with some good luck.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 10:33 am to RollTide1987
Everyone should probably temper their expectations on this series. This isn't a Disney production as The Mandalorian was. This was a National Geographic production that was elevated to Disney+. National Geo's previous scripted drama was The Hot Zone (Ridley Scott's ebola drama) and it was horrible.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 11:05 am to Ace Midnight
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Plus, I fear the retconned #Wokeness that will pervade the project, although that may be unfounded.
It's not unfounded. It's what we've all been taught to expect. Hopefully we will be pleasantly surprised.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 12:06 pm to RollTide1987
Won't do the book justice, just like the movie didn't.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 12:14 pm to T
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didn’t know they were doing this. If its even half as good as the movie it will be great.
I must be missing something.
I was highly interested in the movie after reading the book but couldn't finish the movie. About 3/4 of the way through I turned it off because it wasn't good. Guess the book ruined it for me.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 12:23 pm to RollTide1987
Translating from the original elvish:
"At the height of the Cold War in 1959" - 2019
"To combat a national sentiment of fear and decline" - To create national fear and accelerate America's decline
"the Mercury Seven, are forged into heroes long before they have achieved a single heroic act" - Buncha dipshit kids of rich jerk0ffs
"They are given two years" - They have to meet a celestial calendar mark or wait another 50ish years for the next chance
"The astronauts’ strengths are equaled only by their flaws" - they're all a bunch of lazy counts with drug addictions
"As the men succumb to the temptations that surround them" - they have no self-control and f'd it all up
"At the heart of the historic drama populated by deeply human characters are two men" - the characters are human, the men apparently are not
"The entire program is nearly brought to its knees by their intense rivalry" - They missed their goal and they don't want the rest of the cult to realize it
"The series also follows NASA’s engineers, who work against the clock as pressures mount from Washington and a transfixed public" - Everyone with any sense is sick of their sh*t and they may get nuked if they keep it up
"And we witness the underbelly of a myth-making propaganda machine headed by NASA’s PR department and aided by the writers and editors at LIFE Magazine" - Epstein didn't kill himself and his death ain't stoppin' what's comin'.
"At the height of the Cold War in 1959" - 2019
"To combat a national sentiment of fear and decline" - To create national fear and accelerate America's decline
"the Mercury Seven, are forged into heroes long before they have achieved a single heroic act" - Buncha dipshit kids of rich jerk0ffs
"They are given two years" - They have to meet a celestial calendar mark or wait another 50ish years for the next chance
"The astronauts’ strengths are equaled only by their flaws" - they're all a bunch of lazy counts with drug addictions
"As the men succumb to the temptations that surround them" - they have no self-control and f'd it all up
"At the heart of the historic drama populated by deeply human characters are two men" - the characters are human, the men apparently are not
"The entire program is nearly brought to its knees by their intense rivalry" - They missed their goal and they don't want the rest of the cult to realize it
"The series also follows NASA’s engineers, who work against the clock as pressures mount from Washington and a transfixed public" - Everyone with any sense is sick of their sh*t and they may get nuked if they keep it up
"And we witness the underbelly of a myth-making propaganda machine headed by NASA’s PR department and aided by the writers and editors at LIFE Magazine" - Epstein didn't kill himself and his death ain't stoppin' what's comin'.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 1:25 pm to hawgfaninc
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I must be missing something.
You are definitely in the minority but to each their own.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 1:29 pm to Ace Midnight
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Plus, I fear the retconned #Wokeness that will pervade the project, although that may be unfounded.
One of the reasons I’m going to wait for it to come out and be fairly reviewed before I consider picking up my Disney+ subscription again.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 5:27 pm to MF Doom
Both the book and movie were fairly accurate from a historical perspective. Lots of insight, especially into their private lives and how they “handled” the stress. They were WW2 generation men who cursed,drank,chased women, provided and above all else succeeded at everything they endeavored to accomplish. It may not have been pretty or politically correct, but they got shite done.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 6:04 pm to RollTide1987
I love the movie and I really hope they turn this into The Woke Stuff.
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