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News atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere Will Blast Off With Captain Marvel’s Directors We’re going to SPACE! In the ’80s! By Molly Templeton | Published on May 15, 2025 Author photo: Michael Buckner Comment 0 Share New Share Author photo: Michael Buckner The latest novel from bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & the Six) doesn’t hit shelves until June 3rd, but an adaptation has already been announced. As part of Laika’s move into live-action filmmaking (the studio is mostly known for animation), it’s producing Atmosphere, Reid’s new novel about (fictional) women at NASA. And the movie has a pair of directors who have already spent some time in (fictional) space: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who together have directed Captain Marvel, Half Nelson, and, most recently, Freaky Tales. Here’s the publisher’s synopsis for Atmosphere: Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars. (Please let this not be a Challenger story. I know, the year is slightly off, but … can we not?) Deadline notes that, for the adaptation, Laika will work with Circle M+P, the company that also executive produced Daisy Jones & The Six. Reid herself will also be among the producers. No further details have been announced.[end-mark] The post Taylor Jenkins Reid’s <i>Atmosphere</i> Will Blast Off With <i>Captain Marvel’</i>s Directors appeared first on Reactor.

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