Saturday, January 19, 2013

Lance Armstrong Movie Set For JJ Abrams and Paramount Pictures

(Lance Armstrong, photo courtesy of Joel Sagat)

What's next for Lance Armstrong? The news feed says a major motion picture is in the works.

According to Deadline.com, Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are going to make a movie about the epic rise and fall of doping bicyclist Lance Armstrong. They’ve just closed a deal for screen rights to Cycle Of Lies: The Fall Of Lance Armstrong, a proposal for a book that will be written by Juliet Macur for HarperCollins. Macur is a sports reporter for The New York Times, and she has covered Armstrong for over a decade, through the cyclist’s recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France title, and covering the doping allegations.

(Banksy-inspired graffiti spotted in Los Angeles, CA)
I guess once they saw Act III play out on Oprah this week, the screenplay was ready! The modern day Icarus.

Okay, no more Lance postings, I promise.
at

3 comments:

  1. Kevin Balance1/21/2013 01:54:00 PM

    Oh man. A Lance movie. I think endurance athletes might be torn on whether to view/support it or not. I love the Icarus allusion. Good stuff.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Digger1/21/2013 06:33:00 PM

    I'm thinking Kate Hudson as Sheryl Crow,Patrick Dempsey as Lance.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Unknown1/21/2013 07:43:00 PM

    I will still go see the movie, but this is just terrible.

    Why not Mark Wahlberg for lance?

    ReplyDelete

I LIVE for comments! Please add your thoughts, let me know you stopped by, etc., and be thoughtful of others. Always best if you sign your name, of course.