Why doesn’t this movie show astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) planting the American flag on the moon? That was the question nagging away at folks in Venice after the premiere of First Man, Damien Chazelle’s bluntly visceral and deeply empathetic look at the Apollo 11 mission that culminated on July 21, 1969, when Armstrong became the first man ever to walk on the lunar surface. The answer comes down to the filmmaker’s approach to the material, which favors men over machinery and the personal over the political. The Stars...
- 10/10/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Films like “Apollo 13” and “Gravity” have delved into the deadly risks astronauts take when they go into space, but Damien Chazelle will show how those disasters impacted Neil Armstrong, in “First Man,” his upcoming film starring Ryan Gosling as the famed Apollo 11 astronaut.
“What I really wanted to do is get to know the people who went on this unimaginable journey and take audiences along with them,” Chazelle said before unveiling the film’s first trailer at CinemaCon.
The trailer shows Gosling as Armstrong taking care of his infant child with his wife, Janet, played by Claire Foy. It then shows the couple mourning their friends in Nasa who were killed in previous missions while watching new tests and launches take place, often with disastrous results.
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Among those infamous tragedies are Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee (Jason Clarke and Cory Michael Smith), the men who were tragically killed on the launch pad during the first Apollo mission. Pablo Schreiber will also appear as Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who said the infamous “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
“We have every intention of coming back,” Armstrong assures his son before embarking on his lunar voyage.
“But you might not,” his son replies, to which Armstrong can only admit,”That’s right.”
“First Man” will hit theaters October 12.
Read original story ‘First Man’ Trailer Peek: Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy Blast Off At TheWrap...
“What I really wanted to do is get to know the people who went on this unimaginable journey and take audiences along with them,” Chazelle said before unveiling the film’s first trailer at CinemaCon.
The trailer shows Gosling as Armstrong taking care of his infant child with his wife, Janet, played by Claire Foy. It then shows the couple mourning their friends in Nasa who were killed in previous missions while watching new tests and launches take place, often with disastrous results.
Also Read: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone Reunite in Epic 'Blade Runner 2049,' 'La La Land' Mashup (Video)
Among those infamous tragedies are Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee (Jason Clarke and Cory Michael Smith), the men who were tragically killed on the launch pad during the first Apollo mission. Pablo Schreiber will also appear as Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who said the infamous “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
“We have every intention of coming back,” Armstrong assures his son before embarking on his lunar voyage.
“But you might not,” his son replies, to which Armstrong can only admit,”That’s right.”
“First Man” will hit theaters October 12.
Read original story ‘First Man’ Trailer Peek: Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy Blast Off At TheWrap...
- 4/25/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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