Overview
- Apple Original Films secured the package after a competitive auction that drew nearly half a dozen offers, according to Deadline.
- Austin Butler is attached to play Lance Armstrong in the as-yet-untitled feature.
- Edward Berger will direct from a script by Zach Baylin, with Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt producing and Josh Glick, Zac Frognowski, and Baylin serving as executive producers.
- This will be the first Armstrong biopic made with his life rights, with the film set to capture both career peaks and the later doping scandal.
- The project went to market after Stuber’s new United Artists deal precluded an automatic home at Amazon MGM, per Deadline’s reporting.