Lance Armstrong will be taken to the movies

The Paramount studio and the producer of the filmmaker JJ Abrams ('Lost', 'Star Trek'), Bad Robot, have decided to take the controversial film career to the cinema. cyclist Lance Armstrongwhose scandal doping has ended up demolishing his myth, as reported today on his website The Hollywood Reporter.

Both companies have taken the rights to adapt the book to the big screen "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong"of the New York Times sports journalist Juliet Macur, who followed closely the life of the athlete from his cancer rehabilitation to its decline, going through his seven triumphs in the Tour de France.

Macur's work will be released in June in the United States by the HarperCollins publishing house, which last November secured the project after agreeing with the author an advance payment estimated at more than 100.000 dollars.

Confession

After many accusations, Armstrong ended up admitting this week to the television show of the popular American presenter Oprah Winfrey that consumed doping substances to improve its performance on the bicycle and achieve the unprecedented record of seven consecutive victories in the gala cycling race. As a result, he who was considered the best cyclist of all time was dispossessed of his triumphs in the Tour, as well as the bronze medal he won at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000.

Last year, two other projects were under way to tell the story of Lance Armstrong in theaters, but they did not come to fruition, as did the initiative to adapt the biographical story of Tyler Hamilton, ex-partner of Armstrong to the big screen, and finally one of its biggest detractors for the doping plot

Video of the Lance Armstrong confession

Source: www.abc.es