Cycling's biggest-ever doping scandal races onto the big screen in the trailer for Lance Armstrong biopic The Programme.
Lone Survivor's Ben Foster portrays the disgraced cyclist in the intense sports drama from Philomena director Stephen Frears.
Framing the movie is the efforts by journalist David Walsh (Chris O'Dowd) to expose Lance Armstrong as a doper during his seven-year Tour de France triumph.
Frears's book is based on Walsh's bestselling memoir Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong, winner of the 2013 Irish Book Award in the sports category.
In the wake of the scandal that ruined Armstrong's international reputation, the cyclist issued a public apology earlier this year to those who he's wronged.
Ben Foster took performance-enhancing drugs to play Lance Armstrong in The Programme
"For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people," he said in Lance Armstrong: The Road Ahead.
"I said I would try...
Lone Survivor's Ben Foster portrays the disgraced cyclist in the intense sports drama from Philomena director Stephen Frears.
Framing the movie is the efforts by journalist David Walsh (Chris O'Dowd) to expose Lance Armstrong as a doper during his seven-year Tour de France triumph.
Frears's book is based on Walsh's bestselling memoir Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong, winner of the 2013 Irish Book Award in the sports category.
In the wake of the scandal that ruined Armstrong's international reputation, the cyclist issued a public apology earlier this year to those who he's wronged.
Ben Foster took performance-enhancing drugs to play Lance Armstrong in The Programme
"For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people," he said in Lance Armstrong: The Road Ahead.
"I said I would try...
- 9/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is speaking once again in the exclusive BBC television interview “Lance Armstrong: The Road Ahead,” which can also be seen on FilmOn. The interview features Armstrong discussing his career and, of course, the doping that helped him win several medals. Here’s more about the interview: “In his first television interview since his doping confession in 2013, former cyclist Lance Armstrong talks exclusively to BBC Sports editor Dan Roan in Austin, Texas, about life as sport’s most notorious drugs cheat, forgiveness, and his hopes for the future.” The BBC line of channels of the many UK live TV channels you can see on FilmOn. Other channels include [ Read More ]
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- 4/22/2015
- by monique
- ShockYa
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