The house race is on.
Disney+ unveiled a sneak peek at The Proper Stuff on Saturday, and it offers us our greatest have a look at the brand new sequence but.
Primarily based on the enduring bestseller by Tom Wolfe, The Proper Stuff is an inspirational have a look at the early days of the U.S. House Program and the unimaginable story of America’s first astronauts, the Mercury Seven.
On the peak of the Chilly Warfare in 1959, the Soviet Union dominates the house race, and America fears it’s a nation in decline.
Newly-formed NASA has the monumental activity of sending a person into house, and its engineers estimate they want a long time to perform the feat.
They’re given two years. Dubbed Challenge Mercury, this system recruits and trains simply seven astronauts from a handful of the navy’s greatest pilots.
Inside days of being offered to the world, the Mercury Seven change into immediate celebrities, cast into heroes earlier than they obtain a single heroic act.
At a time when many puzzled if America’s glory days had been behind it, The Proper Stuff is an aspirational story about how bizarre human beings can obtain the extraordinary.
As a lot about who we’re right this moment as it’s about historic achievements, the sequence evokes the surprise of this singular period, when the free world appeared in direction of a brand new horizon of hope as we first stepped off the bounds of our solely house to enterprise into the huge unknown.
The Proper Stuff will span eight episodes on the streaming service, and presents a change in path for Disney+.
A lot of the streamer’s content material choices are geared in direction of a younger viewers.
Fortress Rock’s Mark Lafferty is on board as showrunner, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson, Chris Lengthy, Howard Korder and Will Staples govt producing.
Thelma Schoonmaker and Danny Robust are connected as consulting producers.
The Proper Stuff stars Patrick J. Adams, Jake McDorman, Colin O’Donoghue, Michael Trotter, Aaron Staton, Micah Inventory, James Lafferty, Nora Zehetner, Shannon Lucio, Eloise Mumford, Eric Ladin, and Patrick Fischler.
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