![]() ![]() Approach it simply as Hunky Young Astronauts in Love rather than a Wolfe adaptation - it’s constantly adding things that aren’t in the book and yet, like the movie, it still can’t find time to dedicate a full episode to NASA’s test monkeys - and you might even be able to dispense with some of the disappointment. Critics have been sent the first five (of eight) hours of the series and thus far, this Right Stuff is disappointingly…fine. Sure, it probably couldn’t live up to the film, but there’s no reason why it shouldn’t adapt the book successfully on its own terms. ![]() So it was with a mixture of trepidation and excitement that I approached Disney+’s new series adaptation of The Right Stuff. Most near-perfect adaptations of near-perfect books probably shouldn’t be remade or tampered with, but even with a running time of 192 minutes, the film barely dips into the wealth of stories and characterizations in Wolfe’s free-wheeling chronicle of the Project Mercury astronauts. And yet it isn’t close to being definitive. ![]() ![]() Philip Kaufman’s 1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff is a rare creature in that it’s borderline perfect, from tone to casting to miles-ahead-of-the-curve effects work. ![]()
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