The story of the fallen cycling champion Lance Armstrong also got the Hollywood treatment. In the film The Program, Ben Foster (The Sole Survivor) took on the role of a disgraced superstar who literally swept away his cycling rivals at the famous Tour de France cycling race. And if the director of success or the man behind Armstrong was Johan Bruyneel, the man behind the camera of this biographical drama was director Stephen Frears.
The meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of Lance Armstrong has been screened twice so far, namely in two documentaries signed by Alex Holmes and Alex Gibney. Now the disgraced cyclist got his own biopic The Program.
In it, he plays journalist David Walsh, who exposed the American's indecencies Chris O'Dowd (Thor: World of Darkness), his very book Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong (The Seven Deadly Sins: My Hunt for Lance Armstrong) was the "humus" for this drama.
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They also appear in prominent roles in the film Dustin Hoffman, Guillaume Canet and Lee Pace.
Biographical sports drama
The Program
(USA, 2015)
Direction: Stephen Frears. They play: Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd. Dustin Hoffman, Lee Pace, Jesse Plemons, Guillaume Canet, Elaine Cassidy, Jorge Leon Martinez.
In the cinema from September 23, 2015.
