Adam Taylor (The Handmaid’s Tale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Before I Fall, Meadowland) is the composer of National Geographic’s new Disney+ original series The Right Stuff. The show is based on the best-selling 1979 novel of the same title by Tom Wolfe and stars Patrick J. Adams, Jake McDorman, Colin O’Donoghue, Eloise Mumford, James Lafferty, Nora Zehetner, Eric Laden, Patrick Fischler, Aaron Staton, Michael Trotter, Micah Stock, Shannon Lucio and Josh Cooke. The drama focuses on the early days of the U.S. Space Program and tells the true story of America’s first astronauts, the Mercury Seven. Mark Lafferty (Castle Rock), Jennifer Davisson & Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant, Richard Jewell), Will Staples, Danny Strong (Empire, Rebel in the Rye), Howard Korder (Boardwalk Empire) and Chris Long (The Americans, The Mentalist) are producing the Appian Way and Warner Bros. Television production. The Right Stuff will premiere this Friday, October 9 and will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
Taylor also continues to score Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which is set to return for its fourth season in 2021.