Oscar winner Damien Chazelle’s La La Land follow up with Ryan Gosling gets release date

Damien Chazelle, who won an Oscar for directing La La Land, is gearing up to helm his follow up film, a biopic on Neil Armstrong starring Ryan Gosling.

A biographical account of Neil Armstrong’s life in the lead up to his landmark 1969 moonwalk, First Man, directed by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle and starring La La Land lead Ryan Gosling, is due out on October 12, 2018.

Damien Chazelle became the youngest person ever to win the Best Director award at the Oscars.

Adapting the James R Hansen account First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, and directing from a screenplay by Spotlight co-writer Josh Singer, First Man already looks like a strong contender during the 2018/19 Hollywood awards season.

Before then, Gosling is scheduled to appear in Terrence Malick’s drama Song to Song and Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049.