Austin Butler’s Lance Armstrong Movie Finds Streaming Service Home

Austin Butler’s upcoming Lance Armstrong movie has officially found a home, with one of the biggest streamers picking up the coveted rights to the movie.

Where is Austin Butler’s Lance Armstrong movie going to be streaming?

According to a new report from Deadline, after an auction battle that featured a litany of major studios, Apple Original Films has landed Butler’s Lance Armstrong movie, which comes from director Edward Berger.

Although the movie has found a studio, there’s still no other release or casting information as of now. There’s also no exact details on what the movie will cover in terms of Armstrong’s life, although there is a lot to choose from. Armstrong’s story was one of the biggest in all of sports for some time.

A road racing cyclist, Armstrong won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999-2005, and famously battled testicular cancer while also founding the Livestrong Foundation. In 2012, Armstrong was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs over the course of his career, something that he professed innocence to until 2013, when he admitted being involved and was subsequently stripped of his wins.

The untitled Lance Armstrong movie will be directed by Edward Berger, who’s best known for his work on 2022’s All Quiet on the Western Front and 2024’s Conclave. The latter won him an Academy Award for Best International Film. It will be produced by former Netflix executive Scott Stuber, who has secured Armstrong’s life rights.

King Richard scribe Zach Baylin has been tapped to pen the movie’s screenplay. Besides Stuber, the movie will also be produced by Nick Nesbit. This won’t be the first time that Armstrong’s story has been adapted for the big screen, after Stephen Frears previously directed the 2015 movie The Program with Ben Foster playing the former racing legend.

Butler was most recently seen in last year’s crime thriller Caught Stealing and Eddington. At the moment, he is also attached to star in several high-profile movies, such as the upcoming crime drama Enemies with Jeremy Allen White, the Miami Vice reboot movie with Michael B. Jordan, and racing drama American Speed with Tom Holland.

(Source: Deadline)

Source: Comingsoon.net