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The \u201cElvis\u201d star will portray the cyclist in a new film from Edward Berger<\/a>, the director of \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front<\/a>\u201d and \u201cConclave<\/a>.\u201d Scott Stuber<\/a>, the former Netflix<\/a> film chief who decamped for United Artists<\/a>, is producing the film, which has set off a bidding war among major studios and streamers, sources say.<\/p>\n Stuber 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<\/a>\u2019s story has been told on screen. Ben Foster<\/a> played the road racing cyclist in 2015\u2019s \u201cThe Program<\/a>,\u201d a drama that was little seen when it premiered. Unlike with that film, Stuber has secured Armstrong\u2019s life rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin Butler is about to get his Tour de France on, playing Lance Armstrong, the racing legend whose reputation was undone by a doping scandal. The \u201cElvis\u201d star will portray the cyclist in a new film from Edward Berger, the director of \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d and \u201cConclave.\u201d Scott Stuber, the former Netflix […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2270383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Austin-Butler-to-Play-Lance-Armstrong-in-New-Movie-From.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270385,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270383\/revisions\/2270385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}