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Austin Butler to Play Lance Armstrong in Edward Berger Biopic as Bidding War Emerges

Armstrong has granted life rights for the first time and will consult on development without taking a producing credit.

Overview

  • The film is a packaged project with Edward Berger directing and Zach Baylin writing, with Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbit producing.
  • The package is being shopped to major studios and streamers, with multiple offers reported and no distributor yet set.
  • Stuber secured Armstrong’s life rights after long-running talks, and the project was assembled before his first-look deal with United Artists, leaving rights open to the market.
  • The biopic is intended to chart Armstrong’s rise from cancer survivor to seven-time Tour de France winner and his downfall following USADA’s doping findings.
  • Previous dramatizations, including 2015’s The Program, proceeded without Armstrong’s participation, distinguishing this effort through sanctioned access.