{"id":459578,"date":"2026-02-07T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459578\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:00:08","slug":"austin-butler-to-play-lance-armstrong-in-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459578\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler to Play Lance Armstrong in New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/austin-butler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_austin-butler\" data-tag=\"austin-butler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Butler<\/a>\u00a0is about to get his Tour de France\u00a0on, playing Lance Armstrong, the racing legend whose reputation was undone by a doping scandal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cElvis\u201d star will portray the cyclist in a new film from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/edward-berger\/\" id=\"auto-tag_edward-berger\" data-tag=\"edward-berger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Berger<\/a>, the director of \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d and \u201cConclave.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/scott-stuber\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scott-stuber\" data-tag=\"scott-stuber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Stuber<\/a>, the former Netflix film chief who decamped for United Artists, is producing the film, which has set off a bidding war among major studios and streamers, sources say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStuber has a first-look deal with the Amazon-owned, United Artists, but the project came together before he signed the pact, so the rights are up for grabs. It\u2019s not the first time that Armstrong\u2019s story has been told on screen. Ben Foster played the road racing cyclist in 2015\u2019s \u201cThe Program,\u201d a drama that was little seen when it premiered. Unlike with that film, Stuber has secured Armstrong\u2019s life rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tButler, an Oscar nominee for \u201cElvis,\u201d recently starred in Darren Aronofsky\u2019s \u201cCaught Stealing.\u201d He next appears in the crime drama \u201cEnemies\u201d opposite Jeremy Allen White. Berger directed \u201cBallad of a Small Player,\u201d a look at a gambling addict that starred Colin Farrell. He\u2019s set to direct an adaptation of Tim Winton\u2019s novel\u00a0\u201cThe Riders\u201d with Brad Pitt playing the lead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tZach Baylin, who wrote \u201cKing Richard,\u201d will write the screenplay for the Armstrong film. Nick Nesbit will produce alongside Stuber. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tButler is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane Offfer Weber Dern, Berger is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample &amp; Klein. Baylin is represented by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Butler\u00a0is about to get his Tour de France\u00a0on, playing Lance Armstrong, the racing legend whose reputation was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[6630,49,48,635,49091,188008,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-459578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-austin-butler","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-edward-berger","13":"tag-scott-stuber","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}