Tag: The Right Stuff
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Losing 40lbs For Wyatt Earp Affected Dennis Quaid Long After Shooting Was Done
Dennis Quaid spent the entirety of the 1980s on the cusp of movie stardom. He popped as a cocksure Indiana yokel in Peter Yates’ 1979 underdog drama “Breaking Away,” commencing a flirtation that bopped from Mercury Seven astronaut Gordon Cooper in “The Right Stuff” to corrupt New Orleans cop Remy McSwain in “The Big Easy”…
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‘The Right Stuff’ Canceled at Disney+, But the Series May Find a New Home
The Right Stuff was the second original series to debut on Disney+ after The Mandalorian. Unfortunately, the series about the early days of the United States space program and the first team of astronauts known as the Mercury 7 appears to have run its course, because Disney+ has canceled the series after just one season.…
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Chuck Yeager, First Pilot to Break the Sound Barrier and Subject of ‘The Right Stuff,’ Dies at 97
Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier and a subject of the book and film “The Right Stuff,” has died. He was 97.Yeager’s wife, Victoria Yeager, announced his death on Twitter Monday night. “It is with profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before…
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Here’s Everything New to Disney+ in November 2020
If you’re looking for new movies and TV shows to watch on Disney+ in November, you’ve come to the right place. Below we’ve assembled the official list of everything new to the Disney+ streaming service this month, from original films to ongoing TV shows to library titles. Highlights include, of course, new episodes of the…
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‘Away’ Review: Netflix and Hilary Swank Make It Clear How Hard It Is to Go to Mars
It’s going to be a growing trend, over the next few months, of shows where the concept of space travel is given the “grounded” (for lack of a better word) treatment. Challenger: The Final Flight, a new docuseries on the Challenger tragedy, is due out on Netflix soon. Disney+’s The Right Stuff is a new…
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‘The Right Stuff’ First Look: Nat Geo Blasts Off with Leonardo DiCaprio-Produced Series
Disney+ is going to space: “The Right Stuff,” the streaming service’s first scripted National Geographic original series, is inching closer to its fall premiere, and the series’ cast unveiled a new clip of the show at Comic-Con on Saturday.Per Disney, here’s the show’s official synopsis:“At the height of the Cold War in 1959, the Soviet…
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‘The Right Stuff’ Cast and Creatives Reveal Clip From Season 1, Talks Plans for Season 2, and More [Comic-Con 2020]
A couple of months ago, we learned that National Geographic was teaming with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company to make NatGeo’s first Disney+ original series: a new adaptation of The Right Stuff, which is based on Tom Wolfe’s bestselling book. We watched the show’s Comic-Con 2020 panel to hear the cast and creative team…
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‘The Right Stuff’: New Series’ First Clip Launches the U.S. Space Program on Disney+
Disney+’s original scripted series The Right Stuff is all set for launch. The first clip for the real-life dramatic adaptation of author Tom Wolfe’s iconic, bestselling, non-fiction account of the early days of the U.S. space program offered a great look at the new show, which will premiere this fall on Disney+. The eight-episode, scripted…
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The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Right Stuff’ Made Space Exploration Feel Dangerous
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: The Right Stuff Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: A chronicling of the early days of the United States space program, the film tracks the journey…
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‘I didn’t go looking for someone younger’: Dennis Quaid on his new love and new roles
The Hollywood star on his much-discussed engagement to a PhD student, why TV is now more interesting than film – and how he hopes to see the end of casting-couch cultureDennis Quaid is tired of talking about the cocaine addiction that landed him in rehab in 1990 and stunted his Hollywood career after a promising…