Universal has snapped up the rights to First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong*, a non-fiction account by James R. Hansen of the life of the first person to set foot on our satellite spheroid, which they plan to turn into a movie. Nicole Perlman will write the screenplay.
Though celebrated for his space-travel achievement, Armstrong is famed for his reclusive nature. Apparently this spread to his own family, whom the book suggests he drifted from as the moon pulled him closer. Armstrong has rarely submitted to interviews about his space travel experiences (he was the only moon lander not to participate directing in last year's In The Shadow of the Moon) but this book is said to have enjoyed unprecedent access to him.
Well, this all sounds very nice, but it presupposes that we could be so gullible as to believe that a person actually landed on the moon. Oh, please. We've seen the websites. We know it's all a hoax. Yeah, a man on the moon? Sure. And Big Foot's not real. The Bermuda Triangle's just a story. This tin foil hat isn't protecting our brains from the alien mind-reading signals. Pffft, like we'd pay £150 for a tin foil hat that didn't work. Oh, Hollywood, you crazy.
*Because the 'A' differentiates him from all the other well-known Neil Armstrongs?