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Old 01-18-13, 01:12 PM
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Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are going to make a movie about the epic rise and fall of doping bicyclist Lance Armstrong. They’ve just closed a deal for screen rights to Cycle Of Lies: The Fall Of Lance Armstrong, a proposal for a book that will be written by Juliet Macur for HarperCollins.

Macur is a sports reporter for The New York Times, and he has covered Armstrong for over a decade, through the cyclist’s recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France title. He has also covered the allegations of doping that Armstrong vehemently denied, before finally falling on his sword in a much publicized interview with Oprah Winfrey (since that three-part program will put Winfrey’s OWN on the map, I’m waiting to read the story on whether or not Armstrong got paid handsomely for his confession).

This is the first fresh new Hollywood feature I’ve heard of since Armstrong went from hero to zero, particularly because he protested his innocence so vociferously. Sony Pictures has long had an Armstrong feature project, but the studio dropped it awhile ago, when Armstrong began his descent from grace. This one had the biker’s pal Jake Gyllenhaal poised to star, and it was clearly meant to tell a heroic story of an athlete who overcame adversity. Now it’s the story of a cheat who will likely pay a high price for his lies. Will Sony resurrect theirs, which had Armstrong aboard, and change the angle? That will be hard. It’s reminiscent of the time that Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe made a deal with Phil Spector to tell the mercurial producer’s life story. Cruise had Spector’s mannerisms down pat, and they had the music but Crowe told me what they lacked was a good third act. Well, that was provided when Spector was convicted and is serving a prison sentence for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. But Universal, Crowe and Cruise never moved forward with the project. Instead, the film was made by HBO with Al Pacino in the lead role.

Janklow & Nesbit’s Carlo Martinelli & Amanda Schweitzer handled the deal. They were dispatched by the lit agency to Hollywood to be in the center of such deal making undertakings, and they didn’t have to pedal far to peddle this Armstrong tale.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Does this even need to be made into a theatrical feature? The title of the book alone makes it sound like it'd be more at home as a Lifetime Original Movie.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Originally Posted by RocShemp
Does this even need to be made into a theatrical feature? The title of the book alone makes it sound like it'd be more at home as a Lifetime Original Movie.
was thinking the same thing.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Yeah but Lifetime movies all revolve around a female lead character.

It could easily be made as a Television movie, however that format died about 5-6 years ago on the major networks.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

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Yeah but Lifetime movies all revolve around a female lead character.
They can just tell it from the point of view of the "long suffering wife who endured years of abuse and isolation in service of the ego of a horrible, horrible, evil man".
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

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They can just tell it from the point of view of the "long suffering wife who endured years of abuse and isolation in service of the ego of a horrible, horrible, evil man".
Yeah they will tell it from the point of view of his ex-wife and Sheryl Crow
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Well if they're going to do this at least do it right. Is Aaron Sorkin available?
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

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Yeah they will tell it from the point of view of his ex-wife and Sheryl Crow
Naw. They'll likely gloss over Sheryl Crow and shoehorn the ex-wife in events she had no involvement. Make up scenes like him calling her out of the blue trying to rekindle their romance and manipulating her emotions. You know, the kind of crap viewers of The Depression Network will eat up.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Originally Posted by RocShemp
Naw. They'll likely gloss over Sheryl Crow and shoehorn the ex-wife in events she had no involvement. Make up scenes like him calling her out of the blue trying to rekindle their romance and manipulating her emotions. You know, the kind of crap viewers of The Depression Network will eat up.
I'll watch it if Lindsey Lohan plays Armstrong. She's got the drug use down.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

ahhh, but think of that glorious shot of lens flare beaming off his one remaining nut!
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Matt Saracen as Lance!
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Working title: Dropping the Ball
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Sounds dope.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

This is stupid.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

I'm already bored.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
I'm already bored.
It's not even the biggest sports story of the month, week or day it was released. I don't understand why Hollywood would think people would be interested.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Starring Lens Flares.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

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ahhh, but think of that glorious shot of lens flare beaming off his one remaining nut!
You know, it's pretty sad when you see new a thread with JJ Abrams in the title and you enter with the sole purpose of finding the first lens flare comment.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

apparently this movie has been in production for awhile, and a leaked image has hit the interwebs

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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

I love the guy in the background turning away from the blinding lens flare.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Originally Posted by TallGuyMe
apparently this movie has been in production for awhile, and a leaked image has hit the interwebs


hahahahahaha


I'm stealing that.


hahahahahahaha
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Who fucking cares???



And then my wife added:

Why is he on a pedestal for riding a friggin' bicycle anyway? So what?




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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Cycling is one of the dirtiest professional sports right now. The guy won 7 Tour De France titles, which is like the Super Bowl for that sport, and he cheated. I can totally see why a Producer would like it would make an interesting 2 hour movie. Personally for me I think the story could be compelling.

I watched an interview on 60 Minutes Sports a week or so ago and they interviewed the lead investigator from the USADA who wanted to bring down Lance. All the stuff he said showed that this guy was shady as hell and not the Mr. All-America the media portrayed him to be.
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Re: Paramount and JJ Abrams developing movie about rise and fall of Lance Armstrong

Yeah, I probably wouldn't give my left nut to see that.

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