J.J. Abrams talks “Star Wars”, Lance Armstrong

Director J.J. Abrams has one big sci-fi epic coming out this year in “Star Trek: Into Darkness”. That film stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban and more. Now, he’s directing “Star Wars Episode VII” and had this to say about his goal for the film (talking to the Huffington Post):

“I can just say what I want to do: I want to do the fans proud. I want to make sure the story is something that touches people. And we’re just getting started. I’m very excited.”

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Abrams said that he and Bradley Cooper had been talking about Cooper playing Lance Armstrong in an upcoming biopic. The film will be based on the upcoming book “Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong”.

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And here comes the Lance Armstrong movie

Lance Armstrong recently admitted to doping during an interview with Oprah. Now Bad Robot and Paramount are planning a film on Armstrong based on the yet-to-be written book “Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong” by Juliet Macur. Columbia Pictures was developing a biopic as well, based on the book “It’s Not About the Bike”, with Gary Ross working on the script. I’m going to guess that project is dead now in light of recent events.

Lukas Eggen can be reached at eggen.lukas@gmail.com.