Space movies. Absolutely love ’em. Give me endless biopics about the utterly insane things NASA got up to throughout the 1960s. Show me human beings being strapped to mountains of explosives and shot through the atmosphere in a sardine can with a Casio calculator gaffer taped to it. Hell yes.
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In the grand tradition of that comes First Man, a somewhat long-overdue biopic on Neil “I Was The First Man On The Moon” Armstrong, and the Apollo 11 mission that helped him become the first man to walk on the moon.
Ryan Gosling stars as Armstrong, the man who captivated global attention in mid-1969 by walking on the lunar surface; a feat that was definitely real and not at all accomplished in an elaborate sound stage somewhere in Nevada.
The film is the first major project for director Damien Chazelle since 2016’s highly acclaimed La La Land, and has already attracted the kind of buzz that suggests it’ll be a big player come Oscars season later in the year.
Distributors for the film dropped a new trailer overnight, and it puts the gritty, realistic, tense nature of the movie on full display; showcasing the very real peril of the Apollo missions in a way that few films have achieved before.
Early reviews have been glowingly positive, with some going so far as to call it the Saving Private Ryan of space films. So read into that what you will.
The extended cast is stacked, featuring the likes of Kyle Chandler, Claire Foy, Australia’s Jason Clarke, Pablo Schreiber, and Patrick Fugit.
It’s due for release in the US on October 12th. No word yet on any local release date is available at this stage.
