Damien Chazelle’s ‘First Man’ begins production
Ryan Gosling has started work on the set of Damien Chazelle’s next film, First Man!
Check out pics of Gosling in ‘60’s brown flat front pants lassoing a riding horse below!
Filming kicked off in Atlanta with set pics of the 36-year-old actor portraying U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong. Gosling joins Chazelle’s star-studded cast including Jon Bernthal, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Claire Foy, and Jason Clarke in Universal Pictures biopic based on James Hansen’s biography “First Man: A Life Of Neil A. Armstrong” (2005).
Chazelle's adaptation focuses on NASA's mission to land on the moon during 1961-1969 and follows the harrowing events that transpired during NASA's Gemini VIII mission led by Commanding Pilot, Neil Armstrong (Gosling) and Pilot Dave Scott (Bernthal).
According to Chazelle, the goal is to tell an original story based on a rich history that many “accept” but have a hard time fathoming: “You grow up, you know that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, you see the picture, it’s all very gleaming and you see the American flag and you feel proud and that’s kind of it. You accept that it happened. But the challenge or the hope with this would be to try to play a little bit of a rewind and put you in a mindset where it hasn’t happened yet, and it’s the most insane thing that a group has ever come together to do.”
First Man is written by Josh Singer (Spotlight) and is produced by Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling, and is scheduled for release October 12, 2018.
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