Damien Chazelle to Direct Neil Armstrong Biopic

Director Damien Chazelle, who made a big impression at this year's Sundance Film Festival with the film Whiplash, is the pick to direct Universal's Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man. The project is said to have been going around for more than ten years and at one point was set up by Warner Bros. with Clint Eastwood on board to direct and produce.

According to THR, Chazelle is in early talks to direct the film which has Josh Singer attached to write the script. The film will be an adaptation from the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James Hansen, who had full access to NASA and Armstrong's family when writing the book. Armstrong became historically famous in 1969 by being the first person to set foot on the moon, and spoke the equally famous line "That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."