Gosling and Chazelle to Reunite on the Moon
Friday, December 30, 2016 at 8:00AM Chris here. It's that time of the Oscar season where we are starting to hear about the major contenders next projects, and here's one that reunites two major forces behind the frontrunner. Ryan Gosling has already danced among the stars for director Damien Chazelle, and now he'll be launched back into them as Neil Armstrong for First Man.
From James Hansen's biography of the same name, the film will be adapted by Spotlight's Oscar winning cowriter Josh Singer and follow the story of the historic moon landing. The project had originally been developed by Clint Eastwood, but Chazelle is an incredibly more interesting and less expected choice for the project. This would be quite the about face from the jazz-focused La La Land and Whiplash, so we'll be curious to see the results whether or not he becomes the youngest ever Oscar-winning director this year.
Will this be one small step for Chazelle or a giant leap for Gosling?
Reader Comments (6)
Ryan Gosling has become one of those actors where no matter what he does, I'm there. After his one-two punch with The Nice Guys and La La Land this year, he's become an immediate draw for me.
And here I expected Chazelle's next film would be a TED talk about jazz, shot by a camera making continuous 360 circles around the stage.
Ok, fine, I'll think positive: if we're making another NASA movie/historical biopic, better to get a director who might shake up aesthetic norms a bit rather than play it straight. (But here's hoping they ditch that corny title - could we not even let "Hidden Figures" hit wide release before Hollywood reasserts male-focused historical narratives?)
the best thing about this for me is that gosling is pretty much armstrong's age on the date of the landing. i feel like most biopics have actors play historical figures 10 years too old or too young. maybe i'm the only one who's bothered by this, idk lol
Chazelle is obviously exciting choice for the director.
Hopefully Gosling will do well. Often these biopics performances are so mimicry and dull. But somehow I think Armstrong's personality kind of fits into Gosling's wheelhouse.
Not the most flattering photo of either of them...
#genderparity #objectification
Gosling is smart to make another film with the director " La La Land"