posted 09-23-2014 03:52 PM               

Additionally, Josh Singer is being tapped to pen the script, which adapts the book First Man: A Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James Hansen. Hansen had full access to Armstrong's family as well as NASA when he wrote the tome.

The move brings a new bounce to the project, which has been around for more than 10 years and was at one point set up at Warner Bros. with Clint Eastwood attached to produce and direct.

Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment, coming off a nice opening weekend with "The Maze Runner," are producing.

..."First Man," however, won’t be Chazelle's next film. That is likely to be "La La Land," a musical set up at Lionsgate that has [Miles] Teller and Emma Watson attached to star.

Singer wrote "The Fifth Estate," the story of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. He also wrote "Spotlight," the story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the Catholic church sex abuse scandal that is in preproduction, with Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams to star.

posted 09-29-2014 05:19 PM               

Filmmaker, TV network take small steps to Neil Armstrong biopics

..."Space enthusiasts need to know that it is not going to be an "Apollo 13" or a "From the Earth to the Moon," Hansen told collectSPACE.com. "It is going to be sharply-edged, penetrating character study."

"I am going to be deeply involved in this film, especially as the screenplay is written, and I will do everything I can to make it an honest story," he added.

posted 11-24-2015 11:35 PM               

...Chazelle and Gosling are currently together making La La Land, the musical film set in contemporary Los Angeles and starring Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as the aspiring actress he falls in love with.

posted 12-09-2016 05:39 PM               

...my next movie is about [moon-landing astronaut] Neil Armstrong...

Neil Armstrong? Why?

Because he's fascinating. An entire country and the whole world put their hopes and fears onto this one person who now feels almost un-human. That period has been so encased in amber, as though those guys on the moon trip were Greek gods, when they were actually humans doing this crazy thing. I'm working on it with Ryan and Josh Singer, who wrote "Spotlight." It's not a biopic, just about the years around the flight.

posted 12-29-2016 01:22 PM               

Ryan Gosling to portray Neil Armstrong in Universal biopic 'First Man'

Actor Ryan Gosling will portray Neil Armstrong in Universal Studios' biopic about the Apollo 11 astronaut, "First Man," to be directed by Damien Chazelle.

Gosling, who currently stars in Chazelle's latest movie, "La La Land," now in theaters, secured the deal to appear as the first moonwalker this month.

posted 12-30-2016 09:19 AM               

It's not a biopic, just about the years around the flight.

posted 05-19-2017 10:27 PM               

Chatting with Neil Armstrong's boyhood friend Kotcho Solocoff at the Ohio State Armstrong Symposium last Monday. That is Josh Singer, screenwriter for the upcoming Universal film "First Man," to my left. Director Damien Chazelle is at the bottom left of the picture with his back turned to camera.

posted 05-23-2017 09:14 PM               

Shortly before beginning prep on "La La Land," I started working on this movie about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing, "First Man." In fact, the first time I met Ryan [Gosling], it was to talk to him about "First Man" and not "La La Land." It meant that, as soon as "La La" was done, I could go back into that.

I think it was just how, in some ways, crazy and dangerous the entire enterprise was. You grow up seeing the gilded history of the moon landings, and I thought it would be interesting to strip that away and look at what it took to actually pull this off. What kind of toll was taken on those people who were actually in the cockpit, risking their lives to pull it off.

posted 06-20-2017 05:08 PM               

Chandler will play Deke Slayton, the WWII pilot, aeronautical engineer and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and who became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office.

posted 06-20-2017 07:52 PM               

Corey Stoll is heading to the moon. The "House of Cards" star is in talks to play Buzz Aldrin in Universal's "First Man," the film about Neil Armstrong that will be helmed by La La Land director Damien Chazelle.

posted 06-21-2017 06:28 PM               

If a deal is made, Clarke will play Ed White, the first American to walk in space, who later died in an Apollo mission testing accident.

posted 08-25-2017 09:49 AM               

...casting folks :"will be doing invite only casting call to meet with director."

posted 09-05-2017 03:02 PM               

I made some Apollo communications carrier "snoopy caps" for the upcoming Neil Armstrong movie with Ryan Gosling. Both the standard cap and the "Armstrong" style.

Neil is the only astronaut who wore that particular style cap which lacked the sweat pad on the forehead and had some extra brown straps sewn over the top. I was honored to be asked to make these (and some other things I'll share shortly). They are dead on balls accurate, made of teflon just like the real thing.

posted 09-29-2017 02:14 PM               

Walker was Armstrong's secondary boss who flew the world's first two spaceplane fights in 1963. Brian d'Arcy James joins a cast that includes Ryan Gosling as Armstrong, Corey Stoll as Buzz Aldrin, Jon Bernthal as Dave Scott, Kyle Chandler as Deke Slayton and Claire Foy as Janet Shearon.

In addition to "Molly's Game" opening on Nov. 22, James can be seen in Sony Classics' Watergate "Deep Throat" biopic "Mark Felt: The Man Who Who Brought Down the White House," which is opening today in New York and Los Angeles.

posted 09-30-2017 12:41 PM               

Last month, Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle visited the museum to research Neil Armstrong and the Gemini VIII mission.

posted 10-03-2017 09:42 AM               

Schreiber concurrently is filming one of the lead roles in "Skyscraper" opposite Dwayne Johnson, also for Universal. On Starz's "American Gods," he is known for his turn as the foul-mouthed, out-of-luck leprechaun Mad Sweeney.

posted 10-09-2017 08:42 PM               

As many of you know, I make replica space suits. I was asked recently by the production team of "First Man," the Neil Armstrong biopic starring Ryan Gosling, to make a replica of Armstrong's X-15 A/P22S-2 full pressure suit.

At first I said no because I had very little interest in that particular suit. But I got to examine a few of them in person in a friend's collection (there are VERY few of these suits remaining). And then I saw a commercial for the US Air Force and there was a brief clip of Bob White (I think) in one of these suits and I was suddenly inspired to take on the project.

The whole thing took about a month and a half. I scratch-built almost every piece of this suit myself from photographs as there aren't a whole lot of real life examples of work from anymore. In many ways it's easier to get reference material on the Apollo suit.

It was sewn from aluminized nylon that was supplied by the production. Hopefully it will make it into the movie.

posted 10-09-2017 11:43 PM               

Fugit currently stars in the Robert Kirkman-created Cinemax series, "Outcast," and is set to appear in Kenny Riches' upcoming drama, "A Name Without a Place."

posted 10-25-2017 06:59 PM               

The actor was photographed portraying the famed, late astronaut on-set in Atlanta, Georgia, this week...

posted 10-26-2017 05:04 AM               

If the film includes a scene covering Aldrin's use of a Duro marker pen to activate a circuit breaker in the Apollo 11 LM it should be one of my old Duro markers on screen.

posted 11-14-2017 01:25 PM               

A production company spokeswoman wouldn't discuss details of the Perry filming, but a permit that the city issued suggests that the scene is a re-creation of a training crash in which Armstrong was nearly killed.

The permit map of the site includes markings that state "crash," "burn location" and "Neil dragged." It also shows that two cranes will be used.

The map is titled "LLTV Sequence." LLTV stands for lunar landing training vehicle...

The scene will be filmed in an area east of the Go Fish Education Center on land between Perry Parkway and the Golden Isles Parkway.

Roth wouldn't say what cast members — if any — may be there. The set is closed to the public and to media.

posted 11-16-2017 11:19 AM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Neil Armstrong's LLTV crash will be recreated next week...

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After the accident, as a crane removed the wreckage of LLRV No. 1, Ottinger saw a snake crawl out from under the wreck. He admitted imagining the befuddled snake looking up and asking, “What the hell was that?”

posted 11-16-2017 01:54 PM               

The sound man responsible for the film placed microphones in this Apollo A7LB suit at the ILC white room earlier this year to accurately capture the sound of gloves, helmets and hoses being donned.

When asked for assurances that these sound effects would not be left on the cutting room floor my contact was told "I want the most authentic sound effects possible in the movie and when it comes to sound effects... what I says goes."

I'm looking forward to seeing the finished movie.

posted 01-12-2018 03:45 PM               

The production is seeking men and women, 20 years of age or older. Men must have a period-correct haircut and be clean shaven. Women cannot have highlights in their hair, fake nails or visible piercings or tattoos.

posted 01-13-2018 12:38 PM               

A late addition to the panel was a Flight Director Indicator (FDI) reproduction, the centerpiece of the left and right main panels.

posted 04-25-2018 01:41 PM               

The "La La Land" auteur took the stage in Caesars Palace promising theater owners that he intended to take audiences on an "immersive journey" while dramatizing the story of Neil Armstrong's mission to the moon. The goal is to bring moviegoers along with Armstrong and the crew of Appllo 11 "as they shot through the heavens and took those first few steps on the moon," he said.

...one particularly stirring scene [from the trailer] finds Armstrong answering his worried children's questions about whether or not he will make it back after his lunar travels. He tries to deflect by noting that his team has confidence, before ultimately acknowledging that he could die. It's an insular performance, one that could land [Ryan] Gosling in the awards hunt. [Claire] Foy also may factor into consideration with her portrait of a worried woman struggling to hold her family together.

posted 06-08-2018 07:46 AM               

Photo: Bauer Griffin/Daily Mail

posted 06-08-2018 07:32 PM               

First trailer for 'First Man' launches Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong

Universal Pictures has released a first look at "First Man."

The studio on Friday (June 8) posted its first trailer for "First Man," director Damien Chazelle's feature film starring actor Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.