'The Right Stuff' lifts off on Disney Plus, takes flight from book, film
National Geographic's "The Right Stuff" on Disney+ is based on the previous works of the same title, including journalist Tom Wolfe's 1979 best-selling book and director Philip Kaufman's 1983 feature film. Like the Disney Plus series in which they appear, the cast of National Geographic's "The Right Stuff" drew inspiration from Tom Wolfe's 1979 bestselling book by the same title and director Philip Kaufman's 1983 film adaptation of the same. Related: These astronauts read 'The Right Stuff' and flew in spacePersonal 'stuff'Adams, who portrays first American in orbit John Glenn, was given Wolfe's book by his father, who like the author was a journalist. Trotter also received Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" when he was a boy. O'Donoghue, who plays astronaut Gordon Cooper, got his copy of "The Right Stuff" at an unrelated meeting with Appian Way, even before they began developing it as a project.
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