Eastwood Purchases Rights for Neil Armstrong Bio Pic

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Variety mag report on Clint Eastwood's purchase of the movie rights to "First Man: A Life of Neil A. Armstrong".

Let's hope it's better than "Space Cowboys"....heh

I think it will be as long as Eastwood isn't in it.

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Although he might not always be cast right, I think eastwood is one kick-ass director and he's actualy a quite composer.

He directed one or two episodes of the (GREAT!) old 'Spielbergs Amazing Stories' series, and you tell me that 'unforgiven', 'bird', a 'perfect world' and hell....even (dare I say) 'bridges over mad. county' and '(p)lay misty for me' are good films..and classics as the honkytonk man, pale rider, the outlaw josey wales, eiger sanction, FIREFOX!!

Even though space-cowboys wasn't as great as it could have been, it stands miles ahead of doggy-poo like Armagaddon...eastwood at least always tries to have a story and backs it u with great tough visuals...
And you admit didn't get a giddy smile when you saw that younger actor play a young eastwood :)

still...i'd rather see him with a gun, bluffing about the number of bullets left..:)

But an eastwood-directed armstrong movie....hell yea!

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Guess I should have had more details in my first post. I wasn't knocking Eastwood's directing skills (AMPAS justly gave him a statue for "Unforgiven", a truly outstanding picture); I was tying in "Space Cowboys" (which was a turkey) to this new picture.

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Nope. "Space Cowboys" had Tommy Lee Jones in a backside shot. That alone almost made it worth the price of admission. Also, they actually used some JSC locations instead of faking them. That was kind of nice, too.

Wendy W.

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Nope. "Space Cowboys" had Tommy Lee Jones in a backside shot. That alone almost made it worth the price of admission. Also, they actually used some JSC locations instead of faking them. That was kind of nice, too.

Wendy W.

So authentic locations and a bare behind make for a good movie? What was I thinking?! hehehe

I'm just glad I only paid $2 to rent it from the grocery store video section instead of paying for theater tickets.

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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Yeah Space Cowboys was pretty decent, I thought. You watch movies for many different movies. I love movies that leave you brain dead (Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Memento) but I also like 'fun' movies and stupid movies. Space Cowboys was a fun movie, and did not take itself too seriously like Armageddon and Deep Impact (should be a porn title) which are more unrealistic.

Now...The Right Stuff.....The Right Stuff was a MOVIE! Everytime I watch it, it makes me long for the glory years, test pilots who had 'the touch,' the pride surrounding that era.

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Bwahahahaha! I hope you understand how hard it is to explain to my co-workers just exactly why it is I'm dying in here!

Wendy W.

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"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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"Hey scotty, you got any Beeman's?"

And a steak for Scott Crossfield (who like Yeager, is still with us after a very long and dangerous career). That X-15 must have been an awesome ride. Somebody ought to do a movie about Crossfield's life too.

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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Remember that just because somebody purchases the movie rights to a book, it doesn't mean that said book will be made into a feature film.

Somebody has to sit down and write a script, and it has to go through the meat grinder of drafts, re-writes, etc.

However, news of a major name (Eastwood) putting up money for movie rights is a positive gesture that will serve to attract talent. Let's hope the script development goes well, but if they are to do a pic like this justice, it's going to cost a bundle. Movies are so expensive to make that studios literally bet the company on them nowadays.

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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Thanks, I am researching him now. Was he in The Right Stuff?

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Thanks, I am researching him now. Was he in The Right Stuff?

Scott Crossfield was played by Scott Wilson in the picture. Crossfield didn't do a cameo like Chuck Yeager did (bartender at Pancho's [When reading Pancho Barnes' bio, is anybody else reminded of Jan Davis?

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Until you mentioned it, I did not realize he had a cameo. Must go back and watch it. very cool.

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Until you mentioned it, I did not realize he had a cameo. Must go back and watch it. very cool.

Look for "Fred" behind the bar.

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."