(This contrasts with the character Dr. Royer-Collard in the 2000 Philip Kaufman movie Quills, based on the Doug Wright play of the same name.)
The Mercury-Redstone 3 mission was dramatized in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon episode "Can We Do This?" (starring Ted Levine as Alan Shepard), as well as in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff, and Philip Kaufman's movie The Right Stuff based on the book.
Philip Kaufman (born 1936), American film director and screenwriter
His movies have adapted novels of widely different types – from Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being to Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun; from Tom Wolfe’s heroic epic The Right Stuff to the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin’s Henry & June.
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Rose Kaufman (née Fisher; March 30, 1939 – December 7, 2009) co-wrote the screenplays of The Wanderers (1979) and Henry & June (1990) with her husband, writer-director Philip Kaufman.