Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the book, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, written by historian James R. Hansen, in order to bring the story to film, reported Variety.
Armstrong had such a strong desire to go to the moon and to become an American hero, that he was nicknamed, "The Ice Commander."
After his moon expedition, Armstrong preferred to be out of the spotlight back on Earth. He came home to his family and lived a private life.
Temple Hill Entertainment will be producing the film and Nicole Perlman is writing the screenplay. Perlman has rewritten the script for Challenger, a depiction of the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman, about the American space shuttle tragedy in 1986. Challenger is expected to be directed by the documentary filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect).