Apple Original Films said on Wednesday it had prevailed in an auction for the upcoming biopic of controversial cyclist Lance Armstrong. As previously announced, Edward Berger will direct Austin Butler in the lead.
Apple Studios will produce the feature and Scott Stuber, who obtained the rights to Armstrong’s life story and will work in partnership with the cyclist, will produce alongside Berger and Nick Nesbitt.
Zach Baylin will write the screenplay and serves as executive producer with Josh Glick and Zac Frognowski.
This is the first time Armstrong has assigned his life rights. The US cyclist is a cancer survivor and won the Tour de France cycling race seven times before admitting to blood doping.
The project falls outside Stuber’s current deal at Amazon MGM’s United Artists, where he is also working with Berger on a political thriller about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who spent a year in a Russian prison.
Berger recently started shooting The Riders, starring Brad Pitt, Julianne Nicholson and Camille Cottin, in Ireland. The A24 project is filming around Dublin and in other locations in Ireland and across Europe. He is also set to direct Butler in sci-fi story The Barrier, for 20th Century Studios.
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