The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe’s bestselling novel of the same name, follows the early days of the U.S. space program. In 1959, seven men were chosen to be a part of the Mercury Seven ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is among the producers of Disney+'s new series adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff,' a nonfiction ... keeps nodding to the Kaufman movie, and it’s not a flattering ...

It definitely had the right stuff for cable TV, however, where it played over and over for decades, chopped through with equally epic commercial breaks. Although the movie took some fictional ...

Then the book and movie considered ... But this Right Stuff doesn’t have much to say beyond observing the basic dichotomy between the astronauts’ superhuman images and their extremely fallible ...

John P. Ryan as the head of the Manned Space Program, bringing out the Project Mercury astronauts in one of the greatest press conference scenes in movie history in “The Right Stuff.” ...

It took two decades for the journalist Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff” to reveal the frizzed wires underneath the capsule’s smooth exterior: the ego clashes, the stress and depression ...

to sell the film with images of astronauts in faceless flight ... The main character of The Right Stuff is something called The Right Stuff. The movie is about the transmigration and adventures ...

The Right Stuff did poorly at the box office upon its release, though critics loved it. Christopher Nolan did too: he has called it “an almost perfect movie.” He’s wrong about the “almost ...