Lance Armstrong's life story was built for a biopic even before his doping scandal and fall from grace -- are we sure there hasn't been a Lifetime movie done about him already? -- but now it only figures that there are four such films planned.
Stephen Frears (The Queen) is making one of those films, and X-Men's Angel, Ben Foster, is now in final talks to play Armstrong. The film will probably start production in the fall.
Elsewhere, Sony Pictures Classics will release the documentary The Armstrong Lie, while Warner Bros. has an untitled project from Side Effects scripter Scott Z. Burns and director Jay Roach (Game Change). That film, according to Deadline, involves "the life rights of Tyler Hamilton, the Olympic gold medalist, NCAA champion and Armstrong teammate on the US Postal Service Team who was menaced by Armstrong after he took to 60 Minutes to break the code of silence."
And not to be outdone, Paramount and Bad Robot's J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk also have a film in the works about Armstrong based on the book "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong." (That's the one that Bradley Cooper was rumored to be involved with earlier this year.) It's like the Volcano/Dante's Peak of disgraced athletes!
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