{"id":65624,"date":"2026-02-06T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/austin-butler-to-play-lance-armstrong-in-big-screen-biopic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:55:27","slug":"austin-butler-to-play-lance-armstrong-in-big-screen-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/austin-butler-to-play-lance-armstrong-in-big-screen-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler to play Lance Armstrong in big-screen biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project, following disgraced cyclist, reportedly sparked bidding war, with Conclave\u2019s Edward Berger set to direct<\/p>\n<p>Oscar-nominated actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/austin-butler\">Austin Butler<\/a> is scheduled to take on the role of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in a buzzy new biopic.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/austin-butler-lance-armstrong-movie-edward-berger-1236708342\/\">Deadline<\/a>, the package has caused a \u201cfrenzied\u201d bidding war in Hollywood with Conclave director Edward Berger at the helm and King Richard\u2019s Zach Baylin set to write the script.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/feb\/06\/austin-butler-lance-armstrong-movie\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project, following disgraced cyclist, reportedly sparked bidding war, with Conclave\u2019s Edward Berger set to direct Oscar-nominated actor Austin Butler is scheduled to take on the role of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in a buzzy new biopic. According to Deadline, the package has caused a \u201cfrenzied\u201d bidding war in Hollywood with Conclave director Edward Berger at &#8230; <a title=\"Austin Butler to play Lance Armstrong in big-screen biopic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/austin-butler-to-play-lance-armstrong-in-big-screen-biopic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Austin Butler to play Lance Armstrong in big-screen biopic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}