Canada’s favourite astronaut Chris Hadfield’s New York Times’ bestselling book “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” is being turned into a television pilot, where Hadfield will be a consulting producer.
According to Deadline.com reports, ABC is signing onto the multi-camera comedy from Fox’s “Surviving Jack” creators Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, who also helped produce the book-to-TV project “S#*! My Dad Says” starring William Shatner.
“What happened to me is interesting to me, but what really matters is what does it mean to someone else?” said Hadfield in an interview shortly after the book’s release to The Globe and Mail. “It is really about how you bring it back and make the experience as relevant that matters.”
Hadfield, who was the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space, is also one of the most “accessible” astronauts in Canadian history, with 1 million Twitter followers and a popular Reddit AmA thread “Ask Me Anything” that he managed aboard the International Space Station – it became one of the most successful threads of all time. In 2014 he received the Order of Canada, and he has been the recipient of a number of other prestigious awards including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2002 and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
The new TV pilot project is still untitled.
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