EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Kinetic Content has landed the rights to Grady Hendrix’s forthcoming sci-fi comedic novella ‘BadAsstronauts’ to develop as a half-hour television series, with Aperture Entertainment
is about ordinary Americans trying to accomplish an extraordinary, and very stupid, and also extremely dangerous task: launching a manned backyard rocket into space to rescue their abandoned friend.
Hendrix and Aperture Entertainment Founder Adam Goldworm will executive produce the series adaptation with Kinetic Content CEO Chris Coelen and President and Partner Melissa Myers. The book’s official logline reads in part: “Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts. There were only two to begin with, and now one is stuck on the abandoned International Space Station after his mission went south. With NASA’s budget cut to the bone, there’s no one to bring him back home. But his cousin Walter isn’t going to let that happen.
but give it life or death stakes, ultimately reminding us that it’s still possible to accomplish the impossible,” added Goldworm. Thinkis set up at HBO Max with Charlize Theron producing alongside the Muschiettis and Aperture Entertainment. Hiss was sold to Amazon Studios in a ten-buyer bidding war. Hendrix is currently adapting his novelMy Best Friend’s ExorcismSeven Days in June