Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content:  In 1979, independent producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler outbid Universal Pictures for the movie rights to Tom Wolfe's book, paying $350,000. They hired William Goldman to write the screenplay. Goldman wrote in his memoirs that his adaptation focused on the astronauts, entirely ignoring Chuck Yeager. Goldman was inspired to accept the job because he wanted to say something patriotic about America in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis. Winkler writes in his memoirs that he was disappointed Goldman's adaptation ignored Yeager. In June 1980, United Artists agreed to finance the film up to $20 million, and the producers began looking for a director. Michael Ritchie was originally attached but fell through; so did John Avildsen who, four years prior, had won an Oscar for his work under Winkler and Chartoff on the original Rocky. (The Right Stuff would have reunited 
Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content: Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager, USAF ; Fred Ward as Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF ; Dennis Quaid as Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, USAF ; Ed Harris as John Glenn, USMC ; Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, USN ; Lance Henriksen as Walter "Wally" Schirra, USN ; Scott Paulin as Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, USAF ; Barbara Hershey as Glennis Yeager ; Veronica Cartwright as Betty Grissom ; Jane Dornacker as Nurse Murch ; Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum as NASA recruiters sent to find astronaut candidates ; Kim Stanley as Pancho Barnes ; Pamela Reed as Trudy Cooper ; Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter, USN ; Donald Moffat as U.S. Senator and Vice President Lyndon 
Title: The Right Stuff (book)
Content:  A 3-hour, 13-minute film released in 1983 stars Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Levon Helm, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Lance Henriksen, and the real Chuck Yeager in a cameo appearance. NFL Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz also has a small role, playing "Gonzalez". It features a score by composer Bill Conti. The screenplay was adapted by director Philip Kaufman from the book. Screenwriter William Goldman, who had been attached to the film prior to the hiring of Kaufman, left the project after quarreling with Kaufman about story elements, including Goldman's excision of the Yeager narrative and the unabashedly jingoistic tone of his adaptation (spurred by the Iran hostage crisis). While the movie took liberties with 
Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content:  Johnson ; Levon Helm as Jack Ridley, USAF; Helm also provides voice-over at the beginning and end of the film ; Mary Jo Deschanel as Annie Glenn Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, civilian test pilot for North American Aviation ; Kathy Baker as Louise Shepard ; Mickey Crocker as Marge Slayton ; Susan Kase as Rene Carpenter ; Mittie Smith as Jo Schirra ; Royal Dano as a minister ; David Clennon as a liaison man ; Scott Beach as head NASA scientist based on German immigrant Wernher von Braun ; John P. Ryan as the Head of the Manned Space Program ; Eric Sevareid as himself ; William Russ as Slick Goodlin ; Robert 
Title: Philip Kaufman
Content:  directed and wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film, The Right Stuff, an adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The story is based on the events and lives of the original test pilots who were selected to become the first U.S. astronauts. The film helped launch or boost the careers of numerous little-known actors, including Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward and Dennis Quaid. Kaufman hired William Goldman to write the screenplay, but after a number of disputes about the focus of the story, Goldman quit and Kaufman wrote the screenplay himself. Goldman wanted the story to portray 
Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content:  with both producers, and also with a fourth Rocky veteran, composer Bill Conti.) Ultimately, Chartoff and Winkler approached director Philip Kaufman, who agreed to make the film but did not like Goldman's script; Kaufman disliked the emphasis on patriotism, and wanted Yeager put back in the film. Eventually, Goldman quit the project in August 1980 and United Artists pulled out. When Wolfe showed no interest in adapting his own book, Kaufman wrote a draft in eight weeks. His draft restored Yeager to the story because "if you're serious about tracing where the future — read: space travel — began, its roots lay with Yeager and the whole test pilot-subculture. Ultimately, astronautics descended from that point." After the financial failure of Heaven's Gate, the studio put The Right Stuff in turnaround. Then The Ladd Company stepped in with an estimated $17 million.
Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content:  The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman. It is based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. It follows the Navy, Marine, and Air Force test pilots who were involved in aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base, California, as well as the Mercury Seven, the seven military pilots who were selected to be the astronauts for Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight by the United States. The film stars Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, and Barbara Hershey. Levon Helm narrates and plays Air Force test pilot Jack Ridley. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing about $21 million against a $27 million budget. Despite this, it received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for eight Oscars at the 56th Academy Awards, four of which it won- and later, the film was a huge success on the home video market. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content:  States Air Force liaison to the production, beginning his role as a technical consultant in 1980 when the pre-production planning had begun. The first draft of the script in 1980 had concentrated only on the Mercury 7 but as subsequent revisions developed the treatment into more of the original story that Wolfe had envisioned, the aircraft of the late-1940s that would have been seen at Edwards AFB were required. Wilmore gathered World War II era "prop" aircraft including: The first group were mainly "set dressing" on the ramp while the Confederate Air Force (now renamed the Commemorative Air Force) B-29 "Fifi" was modified to 
Title: The Right Stuff (film)
Content:  as President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Peggy Davis as Sally Rand ; John Dehner as Henry Luce ; Royce Grones as the first X-1 pilot, Jack Woolams ; Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, USAF (Ret) as Fred, the bartender at Pancho's saloon ; Anthony Muñoz as Gonzales ; David Gulpilil as aboriginal man   The following appeared as themselves in archive footage: Ed Sullivan with Bill Dana (in character as José Jiménez); Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev embracing at a review, joined by Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, Kliment Voroshilov, and Anastas Mikoyan; Lyndon B. Johnson; John F. Kennedy; Alan Shepard (in Kennedy footage); and James E. Webb, director of NASA during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Title: The Right Stuff (TV series)
Content: Jake McDorman as Alan Shepard ; Patrick J. Adams as John Glenn ; Colin O'Donoghue as Gordon Cooper ; James Lafferty as Scott Carpenter ; Aaron Staton as Wally Schirra ; Michael Trotter as Gus Grissom ; Micah Stock as Deke Slayton ; Eric Ladin as Chris Kraft ; Patrick Fischler as Bob Gilruth ; Nora Zehetner as Annie Glenn ; Eloise Mumford as Trudy Cooper ; Jackson Pace as Glynn Lunney ; Shannon Lucio as Louise Shepard 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Right Stuff?
Answer: Tom Wolfe.
Thomas Kennerly, Jr. Wolfe.
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe.