#James R. Hansen

Author: Brian Davids / Source: The Hollywood Reporter Damien Chazelle knew First Man would be his most technically challenging film to date. However, the bigger challenge for the Oscar-winning director was finding a personal connection to an American hero’s historic feat that took place long

Author: Josh Singer / Source: New York Times In July of 1969, as the world’s attention was fixed on the spectacle of the first lunar landing, news broadcasts would sometimes flash back to a speech given by President John F. Kennedy earlier in the decade. In effect writing the check that Neil

Author: Kristopher Tapley / Source: Variety Damien Chazelle had just completed “Whiplash,” the 2014 film that would put him on the map, when a project called “” crossed his desk. He wasn’t that interested in astronaut Neil Armstrong, per se, or even NASA history, but after taking a look at James

Author: Amy Lieu / Source: Fox News The sons of legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong are defending a forthcoming film about their father’s historic moon landing, saying it is not “anti-American in the slightest.” Rick and Mark Armstrong, along with Armstrong biographer James R. Hansen, were