Apple Lands Edward Berger's LANCE ARMSTRONG Movie Starring Austin Butler as the Cyclist

Following a major bidding war, Apple Original Films has won the rights to the untitled Lance Armstrong movie starring Academy Award nominee Austin Butler (Elvis) as the cyclist.

Academy Award nominee Edward Berger (Conclave) is directing the feature, with King Richard scribe Zach Baylin penning the script.

Apple Studios will serve as the studio, with Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt producing along with Berger. Josh Glick and Zac Frognowski will serve as executive producers alongside Baylin.

Armstrong famously survived cancer and returned to the world of pro cycling, where he would go on to win the famed Tour de France seven consecutive times.

Hollywood would soon fall in love with that story, with several A-listers chasing the role of a lifetime. But before that story could be told, Armstrong, after denying it for years, ultimately admitted to blood doping, ending his career.

Hollywood did end up telling that story, with Ben Foster portraying the actor as a villain in the 2015 movie The Program, which Armstrong was not a part of.  

Deadline reports that the new film, which combines elements of F1: The Movie and Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull and The Wolf of Wall Street, will cover the life and career of Armstrong, capturing all the highs and lows.