TRANSPARENT Creator Jill Soloway Will Direct a Sally Ride Biopic

Deadline reports that "Transparent" creator Jill Soloway will direct a new biopic about Sally Ride, the first AMERICAN WOMAN in space.

Lionsgate will produce "Ride" from a script by Cassie Pappas.

The film will explore the life of Ride and her historic mission on the Challenger space shuttle in in 1983, her first of two trips into space.

Soloway has several projects in the works. They will adapt comic book character Red Sonja's story into a film; they are also working on "Mothertrucker," a new drama with Julianne Moore.

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