{"id":33448,"date":"2026-02-07T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=33448"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:16:34","slug":"austin-butler-to-play-lance-armstrong-in-biopic-from-director-edward-berger-producer-scott-stuber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=33448","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler to Play Lance Armstrong in Biopic from Director Edward Berger, Producer Scott Stuber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kyle Kaplan\/Focus Features\/Kyle Kaplan\/Focus Features &#8211; \u00a9\u00a02024 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Austin Butler is about to begin his Tour de France, portraying Lance Armstrong, the racing legend who lost his reputation due to a doping scandal. Edward Berger, who directed &#8220;<strong>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Conclave<\/strong>,&#8221; is set to direct a new film with the &#8220;<strong>Elvis<\/strong>&#8221; star playing the part of the cyclist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Scott Stuber, the former Netflix film chief who moved to United Artists, is currently in charge of producing the film, which has resulted in a bidding war between major studios and streaming services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stuber has a first-look agreement with Amazon-owned United Artists, but the project was developed before he signed the contract, resulting in the rights being available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>&#8220;<strong>King Richard<\/strong>&#8221; <\/i>scribe Zach Baylin is penning the spec, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/scott-stuber\/\">Scott Stuber<\/a>\u00a0and Nick Nesbit producing along with Berger. Josh Glick and Zac Frognowski will serve as Executive Producers alongside Baylin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ben Foster was cast as the road racing cyclist in &#8220;<strong>The Program<\/strong>,&#8221; a drama that was not widely seen when it premiered in 2015.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kyle Kaplan\/Focus Features\/Kyle Kaplan\/Focus Features &#8211; \u00a9\u00a02024 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Austin Butler is about to begin his Tour de France, portraying Lance Armstrong, the racing legend who lost his reputation due to a doping scandal. Edward Berger, who directed &#8220;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8221; and &#8220;Conclave,&#8221; is set to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[7284,80,11682,29761,29763,757,29762],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Austin Butler to Play Lance Armstrong in Biopic from Director Edward Berger, Producer Scott Stuber<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Austin Butler : Austin Butler is about to begin his Tour de France, portraying Lance Armstrong, the racing legend who lost his reputation due to a doping scandal. 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