The BBC and Discovery's Discovery Science (TopTV 302) channel are co-producing a one-off factual drama which will be telling the story of a scientist's search for the truth in the wake of the Nasa Challenger disaster of 1986.
William Hurt will play the scientist Richard Feynman in the as-yet-untitled movie with filming which will be starting this month and which will be shown in 2013.
The biographical drama will follow the real-life events surrounding the physicist's investigation into what caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode in 1986.
"Science Channel is honoured to work with the incomparable William Hunt to tell the story of Richard Feynman, a true-life hero and one of the most controversial scientific minds of our times," says Debbie Meyers, the general manager and executive vice president of the Science Channel.
The executive producers are Mark Hedgecoe, Cassian Harrison and Rocky Collins.
