Michael Peña will play true-life Mexican American astronaut Jose Hernandez in AMillionMilesAway, a drama that Alejandra Màrquez Abella is directing for Amazon Studios
. Bettina Gilois, the scribe who wrote and who passed away in 2020, wrote the initial script that has since been worked on by Hernán Jiménez and Abella., and Campbell McInnes are producing via Ciardi’s Select Films banner.
Hernandez is described as the first migrant farmworker to travel into space. The man, who didn’t learn English until the age of 12, spent his childhood moving from town to town and working fields between Michoacán and Stockton, California with his family. Not giving up his dream of traveling the night sky in a rocket, he took the science route to space.
Rick Telles and Benito Martinez will exec produce. The project was previously in development at Netflix.Peña is coming off a turn in Netflix’s acclaimed drug cartel dramaSecret HeadquartersPeña is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360. Abella is repped by APA and Brillstein Entertainment. Hernandez and Gilois are also repped by APA.
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