Ryan Gosling to play Neil Armstrong in La La Land directors moon landing biopic mashable.com

Thats one small step for an acting career. Ryan Gosling is set to play astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, in director Damien Chazelle's followup to La La Land, Mashable has confirmed. Titled First Man, the biopic will adapt author James Hansen's biography "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong." Universal Pictures has not yet set a release date for the film that will chronicle NASA's mission to land a man on the moon.