It’s a big week for Michelle Williams. The four-time Oscar nominee’s first foray into the superhero genre, “Venom,” hits theaters this Friday, and she just signed on to topline “The Challenger,” a drama inspired by the 1986 Space Shuttle tragedy. Variety reports that the “All the Money in the World” star will play Christa McAuliffe in the pic.

Expected to begin production in May, “The Challenger” will tell the story of McAuliffe, a New Hampshire high school teacher who was chosen to join NASA’s Teacher in Space Project. The educator was planning to teach lessons and conduct experiments while in space. Seventy-three seconds after taking flight, The Challenger broke apart, killing its seven crew members, including McAuliffe. In 2004 she was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Martin Zandvliet (“The Outsider,” “Land of Mine”) is directing.

Williams received Oscar nods for “Manchester by the Sea,” “My Week With Marilyn,” “Blue Valentine,” and “Brokeback Mountain.” “I Feel Pretty” and “The Greatest Showman” are among her recent credits. Her upcoming projects include abortion activist drama “This Is Jane,” directed by Kimberly Peirce (“Boys Don’t Cry”), and an English-language remake of Susanne Bier’s Oscar-nominated Danish film “After the Wedding.” Julianne Moore co-stars in the latter.

“When we started making ‘Venom,’ I said to the director, Ruben [Fleischer], that I know I can’t exactly wear a #MeToo T-shirt, but that’s the feeling that I want in this movie,” Williams recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s a scene where I came up with the line, ‘I love you, but I love myself more.’” She continued, “There’s this kind of self-love that all the women that I know are trying to go through right now. That includes questions such as: How do I be easier on myself? How do I love myself more? How do I accept myself more? How do I ask for that from the world and from men? First I’m going to treat myself better, and then I’m going to ask that you treat me better. I really wanted those thoughts to be brought out through Anne’s character in whatever ways possible,” she explained. “With her wardrobe, I wanted her to be in suits. If she was in a skirt, I wanted her to be in suspenders. As we’re asking for equality, I just wanted the story to have constant nods to the male-female interplay that is happening now.”