Ryan Gosling

The New Zealand filmmaker is releasing his indie anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit in October, before working on Samoan football film Next Goal Wins and acting in Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds.

Waititi will then move onto writing and directing Thor: Love and Thunder, with strong speculation it's this Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film that will star Gosling.

It was previously reported that the Drive and Notebook star would feature in the US remake of hit Japanese anime Akira, to which Waititi has been attached for years.

The last thing anyone is thinking about is the winter film awards season.

But despite it still being July, the starting gun for the race which will culminate in the Oscars in February has now been fired.

It's been announced that First Man will open the Venice International Film Festival this year - traditionally thought of as the first of the awards season festivals.

It's based on the Apollo 11 moon landing, and stars Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong - who became the First Man (y'see) to walk on on the moon in 1969.