Source: Hollywood Reporter

David Strathairn is set to star in CHALLENGER, a drama about Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman's investigation into the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger that Philip Kaufman will direct from a screenplay by Nicole Perlman, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Media 8 Entertainment Inc. will co-produce, finance and distribute the feature in association with Code Entertainment and Carol Baum Prods.

With the project, Kaufman returns to the subject of the U.S. space program, which he explored in 1983's "The Right Stuff," which won four Academy Awards.