Universal and DreamWorks in the end took up the First Guy task during the mid-2010s.[twelve] Damien Chazelle, who had gained vital acclaim for his work on 2014's Whiplash, signed onto the movie's production that 12 months, and hired Josh Singer to rewrite an current script.[13] Gosling, who starred in Chazelle's 2016 movie La La Land, joined too to