A trailer has gone live for possibly the most anticipated cycling film of 2015 – The Program, British director Stephen Frears’ treatment of the downfall of Lance Armstrong. It's the first time we’ve got to see actual footage and it seems well worth waiting for.
Starring Ben Foster as the cyclist who in 2012 was banned from sport for life and stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won from 1999 to 2005, the movie is based on journalist David Walsh’s book, Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong.
Chris O’Dowd features as Walsh, who was among the first to raise suspicions over Armstrong’s use of performance enhancing drugs.
Going by the name Icon while in production, it seems the movie will now be called The Program in most markets when it is released this autumn.
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17 thoughts on “Video: Trailer out for Stephen Frears’ biopic charting disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s rise and fall”
Turns out road.cc is actually
Turns out road.cc is actually German…
Sentral wrote:Turns out
Just checked, and rad.cc is already taken … by a firm of cycle couriers in Klagenfurt 😀
Klagenfurt is Austria.
Klagenfurt is Austria.
i can’t get it to play, it
i can’t get it to play, it keeps telling me it’s private!
I keep being told I need to
I keep being told I need to sign in – when I have…
Yeah as we say in the article
Yeah as we say in the article the video is now private – we imagine someone on the German side was a bit too keen to get it up. We’d expect the English language version to go live very soon.
Watch the trailer here
Watch the trailer here http://uk.businessinsider.com/lance-armstrong-the-program-movie-biopic-trailer-2015-6?r=US
Would Lance get paid anything
Would Lance get paid anything for this?
Kadinkski wrote:Would Lance
If they are not using any material from him (the trailer looks like it could be sourced from various people), then no.
Did he tape lots of pig intestines to his legs?
Did he tape lots of pig
Did he tape lots of pig intestines to his legs?
Well if a footballer has his brains in his shorts it would appear a cyclist has his in his legs! 😀
Chris O’Dowd looks brilliant
Chris O’Dowd looks brilliant in this, and Jesse ‘Landry’ Plemons is a convincing Landis.
As a piece of cinema I can’t wait to see it.
This looks good & awful in
This looks good & awful in equal terms.
English language trailer now
English language trailer now added to article.
Kristian House is the riding
Kristian House is the riding double for George Hincapie….
What a mug!
What a mug!
No cameo from Ulrich?
No cameo from Ulrich?
Looks really cool. I’m
Looks really cool. I’m cautiously excited