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Austin Butler is attached to star in a movie about infamous cyclist Lance Armstrong
Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 2/6/26 at 2:55 pm
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EXCLUSIVE: Here is a package that has several major studios off to the races. Deadline is hearing that Austin Butler is attached to star in a movie about infamous cyclist Lance Armstrong, with Edward Berger on board to direct. King Richard scribe Zach Baylin is penning the spec, with Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbit producing along with Berger. Josh Glick and Zac Frognowski will serve as Executive Producers alongside Baylin.
Sources say the package has already caused a frenzied bidding war with several offers in from major studios. Insiders say that Stuber has been working for some time to get Armstrong’s life rights; for so long, in fact, it precedes Stuber’s new United Artist deal, which is why the project is going to market instead of Amazon MGM Studios getting first dibs at it.
Hollywood has always been enamored with the Armstrong story at it involves the highest highs and the lowest lows. Armstrong famously survived cancer and returned to the world of pro cycling, where he would go on to win the famed Tour de France an incredible seven consecutive times. Hollywood would soon fall in love with that story, with several A-listers chasing the role of a lifetime. But before that story could be told, Armstrong, after denying it for years, ultimately admitted to blood doping, ultimately ending his career.
This, which combines elements of F1 The Movie and Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull and Wolf of Wall Street, and will cover the life and career of Armstrong, capturing the highs and lows of his extraordinary journey.
The current project being shopped will mark the first time Armstrong has signed off on his life rights. Stuber and Armstrong have a had relationship for some time, and the producer made it clear to Armstrong they needed to tell everything or he didn’t want to do the film. After many discussions over a long period, Armstrong signed off on it. While he plans to be involved with the development, will not have a producing credit.
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Posted on 2/6/26 at 3:04 pm to RLDSC FAN
I just don’t see it in that dude.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 3:04 pm to RLDSC FAN
At first I thought the title said Louis Armstrong
Posted on 2/6/26 at 3:23 pm to RLDSC FAN
Do we really need a Lance Armstrong biopic? One ball a-hole cheats and wins a bunch of bike races. So what, cyclists suck.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 3:27 pm to SCLSUMuddogs
I would be much more interested in a Louis Armstrong movie featuring Austin Butler.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 4:31 pm to RLDSC FAN
It is pretty well known that Lance Armstrong is one of the biggest assholes on earth. Great cyclist though.
Posted on 2/7/26 at 6:51 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Do we really need a Lance Armstrong biopic?
Seriously. Of all the fascinating historical figures out there, this is what we gonna get
Posted on 2/7/26 at 8:25 am to biglego
Will he still talk like Elvis?
Posted on 2/7/26 at 9:57 am to RLDSC FAN
Imagine if Armstrong would have just retired after 6 wins he would have gotten away with it.
Posted on 2/7/26 at 10:26 am to RLDSC FAN
Lance Armstrong is just a dork that fell in love with his own fame because people pretended to give a shite about cycling for 5 minutes. Outside of a Hallmark or Lifetime version I don't really see a big movie
Posted on 2/7/26 at 2:07 pm to RLDSC FAN
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The current project being shopped will mark the first time Armstrong has signed off on his life rights. Stuber and Armstrong have a had relationship for some time, and the producer made it clear to Armstrong they needed to tell everything or he didn’t want to do the film. After many discussions over a long period, Armstrong signed off on it. While he plans to be involved with the development, will not have a producing credit.
So it's an authorized biopic. That means they're going to tone down and even omit some of the bad stuff. Lance's biggest offense wasn't doping, it's that he destroyed numerous lives trying to maintain the narrative. Just off of the top of my head, a team mechanic who ended up moving to New Zealand, a team masseuse (although apparently they have reconciled!), Frankie Andreu and his wife, and Greg LeMond. At the time, Trek manufactured LeMond's line of bicycles (I had a Poprad), but they had a nasty breakup because LeMond had become an enemy of Lance.
bikeradar.com/news/armstrong-era-corrupt-says-ex-mechanic
theguardian.com/sport/2014/jul/02/emma-o-reilly-lance-armstrong-cyclist-doping
Posted on 2/7/26 at 4:02 pm to RLDSC FAN
Can’t watch anything of his now all I see is Elvis. He did that great of a job.
Posted on 2/7/26 at 6:48 pm to RLDSC FAN
There was a little known movie called the program I watched last year on tubi or Pluto where Ben Foster played Lance , Jesse Plemons played the Mormon teammate that got caught and ratted a year after Lance retired. It was pretty good.
Posted on 2/7/26 at 11:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
Have thought about this, it should be a satire.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 11:09 am to Saint Alfonzo
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One ball a-hole cheats and wins a bunch of bike races.
Everybody was cheating. He was better. His life is interesting to many. Maybe not you, though.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 12:10 pm to RLDSC FAN
I see absolutely zero demand for a Lance Armstrong movie.
The general public barely remembers him or finds him remotely interesting.
Cycling is boring as hell. The "scandal" is boring as hell.
They make way too many biopics in general these days
The general public barely remembers him or finds him remotely interesting.
Cycling is boring as hell. The "scandal" is boring as hell.
They make way too many biopics in general these days
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