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A new project from actress Jessica Chastain about overlooked female astronauts, is being criticised for it's similarity to the hit movie Hidden Figures
ACTRESS JESSICA Chastain has caused a stir on social media, after it was announced that she is developing a female-centric TV series that bares similarity to the hit movie Hidden Figures.
The show in question, titled Mercury 13, will focus on a trio of women who went through rigorous physical and mental test training to become astronauts for the Mercury space program, and will be set in the early 1960s. Sounds familiar?
Well to a few spectators on Twitter, the similarities are blatant, and many argued that this is an example of white women trying to change the narrative and focus the story on them, after the success of Hidden Figures, a predominately black movie that focused on the accomplishments of black female mathematicians behind NASA’s Project Mercury.
Chastain's Mercury 13 will collaborate with Sully writer Todd Komarnicki and she will executive produce an event series.
It was also recently announced that Hidden Figures has earned $119.4 million, and has surpassed "La La Land" to be the year's highest grossing Oscar nominated film.
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