Clint Eastwood to Produce and Direct Film Based on Life of Neil Armstrong

Press release | March 12, 2003

[Bogey78O]

How can we progress as a society if we keep promoting the individual?

/sarcasm

[Question_Assumptions]

How can we move forward into space if we keep looking backwards?

[zook]

Eastwood's next feature: "Paint: How it Dries."

[billorites]

Jim Carrey as Neil Armstrong maybe?

[billorites]

In all seriousness, Neil Armstrong is a great hero and a great American.

He did, however, have the good sense after his stellar, uh lunar, achievement in 1969 to get lost.

I respect that.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Maybe we will get the true story behind Mr. Gorsky.

[Hank Kerchief]

I surely won't fail to miss that one.

Hank

[Frankss]

Is that the mystery quote,something like "I hope you're enjoying it Mr. Grosky" When theres a man on the moon ect?

[Alberta's Child]

I read a very intriguing story once about those early astronauts. Apparently many of them had to cope with bouts of depression later in their lives because in their minds they always felt that nothing they ever did could come close to traveling in space, walking on the moon, etc.

Armstrong apparently became a devout Christian (I'm pretty sure it was Armstrong), and after returning from a trip to the Holy Land he remarked that walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ was a more awe-inspiring experience than walking on the moon.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Yes.

"Good luck Mr. Gorsky."

[Grand Old Partisan]

Will the movie address the question whether Armstrong botched his big line: "That's one small step...."?

[ConservativeLawyer]

Audio of "One small step...."

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

America needs heros.

Armstrong is a great American hero!!

To do the biography justice, I nominate Russell Crowe to play the lead.

Billy Bob Thornton as Buzz Aldrin.

[Grand Old Partisan]

The point is whether he should have said: "...for a man"

[RipeforTruth]

We named our son after Neil Armstrong.

It was a full springtime moon we drove westbound into when our son was born in the wee hours of an Ohio day...

[Defend the Second]

I will both read the book and see the movie. We could use a lot more good men like Armstrong.

[ItsJeff]

I will both read the book and see the movie

Of course in the movie, Armstrong will have a wacky pet chimp and they'll get into hilarious hi-jinx while driving across country solving crimes...

[Brett66]

Looking forward to this.

[OXENinFLA]

I hope in the end Credits they run the clip of Neal hitting that guy for asking him to swear on a bible.