Lance Armstrong: The Movie

RichN95.
RichN95. Posts: 27,253
edited January 2013 in Pro race
This got touched upon on the other thread, but lets have a bit of fun.

Lance Armstrong: The Movie

This is what ever you want to make it. Your actors, your directors etc. It's not actually going to happen so lets have some fun. What is going to be the BikeRadar film.

My choices:

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Armstrong: Christian Bale
Hamilton: Andrew Garfield
Bruyneel: Mads Mikkelson
David Walsh: Gabriel Byrne
Linda Armstrong: Anna Hansen

You can top that casting and add some others: who plays Verbruggen, Hincapie, Landis, Ullrich etc.

(And as I have PTA as director, who can Phil Seymour Hoffman play? He's too slim for Ullrich)
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Verbruggen:- Brian Cox
    McQuaid:- Brendan Gleeson
    Landis: Sean Penn
    Millar: Gerard Butler
    Jeff Novitzky:- Jason Statham
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Armstong: Daniel Day-Lewis. Would really get into the character

    Hincapie: Jim Caviezel
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Christian Bale or Daniel Day Lewis for LA. They'd both emerse themselves in character for a year, that they'd be Cat 1's by the time they'd done, and have done enough dope to keep the LA WADA lab in business

    Kirsten Armstrong - Laura Linney

    Olsen twin - herself, with sister as her body double

    Toby Jones as The Hog (a bit short but makes a great creep - and Jones isnt bad either)

    Robert Carlisle as Flandis (accent would be no prob for Carlise and he's be suitably deranged as appropriate)
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    I'm crap with actors names

    Armstrong - Stifler
    FLandis - Dawson from Dawson's creek
    Tyler - Justin Timberlake
    Chris Carmichal - Steve Carrel
    Ferrari - The english bloke from Buffy
    Betsey - Mila Kunis (just cos she's fiiiiiit!)
    Frankie - Moleman from the simpsons
    Hincapie - Ben affleck (in an entirely non speaking role, which is artistically (and satirically) justified)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    RichN95 wrote:
    This got touched upon on the other thread, but lets have a bit of fun.

    Lance Armstrong: The Movie

    This is what ever you want to make it. Your actors, your directors etc. It's not actually going to happen so lets have some fun. What is going to be the BikeRadar film.

    My choices:

    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Armstrong: Christian Bale
    Hamilton: Andrew Garfield
    Bruyneel: Mads Mikkelson
    David Walsh: Gabriel Byrne
    Linda Armstrong: Anna Hansen

    You can top that casting and add some others: who plays Verbruggen, Hincapie, Landis, Ullrich etc.

    (And as I have PTA as director, who can Phil Seymour Hoffman play? He's too slim for Ullrich)


    The Hoffmeister has never played a role involving strenuous physical activity and he's not about to start. He can be Fat Pat.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    The Hoffmeister has never played a role involving strenuous physical activity and he's not about to start. He can be Fat Pat.

    I originally wanted PSH (who I love) playing the Walsh character - a Walsh/Ballaster amalgam, but the internet wouldn't allow me to divert that much.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    RichN95 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    The Hoffmeister has never played a role involving strenuous physical activity and he's not about to start. He can be Fat Pat.

    I originally wanted PSH (who I love) playing the Walsh character - a Walsh/Ballaster amalgam, but the internet wouldn't allow me to divert that much.


    'Let not the internet your master be' - Yoda
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    The Hoffmeister has never played a role involving strenuous physical activity and he's not about to start. He can be Fat Pat.

    I originally wanted PSH (who I love) playing the Walsh character - a Walsh/Ballaster amalgam, but the internet wouldn't allow me to divert that much.


    'Let not the internet your master be' - Yoda

    OK. Philip Seymour Hoffman is now playing David Walsh / Pierre Ballister/ generic journalist (can't you just see him eating up that role). I'm happy with that. I love Mr Hoffman - he's fantastic.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Lance Armstrong: Dana Andrews

    Hincapie: Robert Ryan

    Dan Duryea as... Tyler Hamilton...

    dan-duryea-04.jpg

    McQuaid: Nigel Bruce doing an Irish accent

    Bruyneel: Edward G Robinson

    Sheryl Crowe: Barabara Stanwyck 'cos my film needs a femme fatale and everyone knows Shezza was the true mastermind behind it all.

    Robin Williams: Ernest Borgnine

    Edit: Forgot to add David Walsh, who would probably want to be played by Bogart or Jimmy Stewart. My budget only stretches to George Sanders. Sorry.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lance Armstrong: Dana Andrews

    Hincapie: Robert Ryan - Dead
    Dan Duryea as dead... Tyler Hamilton...

    dan-duryea-04.jpg

    McQuaid: Nigel Bruce (dead) doing an Irish accent

    Bruyneel: Edward G Robinson (dead)

    Sheryl Crowe: Barabara Stanwyck (dead) 'cos my film needs a femme fatale and everyone knows Shezza was the true mastermind behind it all.

    Robin Williams: Ernest Borgnine (he's still alive!!!)
    Edit: Forgot to add David Walsh, who would probably want to be played by Bogart (dead) or Jimmy Stewart (dead). My budget only stretches to George Sanders (dead). Sorry.

    Sorry AFX, but yourt casting is a few decades out of date.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Ernest Borgnine is still alive, though? That's awesome. Good on him.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    afx237vi wrote:
    Ernest Borgnine is still alive, though? That's awesome. Good on him.

    Sorry, my mistake. He died last summer, aged 95.

    People still alive include Mickey Rooney (Peter Sagan) and Kurt Douglas (Van Garderen)
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    You do know that "Lance and His Yellow-Belly Colored Lies Jersey" is already being made into a feature film by the cast of Glee, directed by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Jens Voigt- Timothy Spall
    Tyler Hamilton-Felicity Kendal and Suzie Kendal (depending upon whether the script touches upon the Chimera)
    Georgie Hincapie -Robert DeNiro
    Jan Ullrich -Pavarotti (out of season) and Robbie Coltrane (Tour peak condition)
    Floyd Landis-Rupert Grindt
    Marco Pantani-Patrick Stewart
    Cadel Evans-Sir Elton John
    Betsy Andreu-Dame Helen Mirren
    @JaunePeril

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    ^ :D Well played sir!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Jens Voigt- Timothy Spall
    Tyler Hamilton-Felicity Kendal and Suzie Kendal (depending upon whether the script touches upon the Chimera)
    Georgie Hincapie -Robert DeNiro
    Jan Ullrich -Pavarotti (out of season) and Robbie Coltrane (Tour peak condition)
    Floyd Landis-Rupert Grindt
    Marco Pantani-Patrick Stewart
    Cadel Evans-Sir Elton John
    Betsy Andreu-Dame Helen Mirren


    Has Hamilton ever won 'Rear of the Year'?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    THink he won a few Arse of the years, but they were nt the good kind... ;)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Certainly horses' ar$e

    :)
  • typekitty
    typekitty Posts: 188
    Bradley Cooper, apparently!

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan ... ong-biopic
  • rob churchill
    rob churchill Posts: 272
    I'm drafting a treatment now. Got to a good bit where Betsy and Travis have just moments to escape from Lance and Hein's secret South American Epo factory before the explosives go off, when they're discovered by Big George. I'm pretty sure Big George doesn't raise the alarm, but I can't decide if that should be because he's actually a double agent for the shadowy organisation known only as USADA, or because he too, has always secretly been in love with Betsy. What do you think?





    Hey, this is Hollywood.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Well if it's JJ Abrahms you won't be able to see anything for all the lense flare (See the new Star Trek film) Michael Fassbender is a much better choice than Cooper in my opinion. I wonder if this will be the Oprah series of events or the Tyler Hamilton version. They'll have to practice Armstrong's "Not normal"....
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  • typekitty
    typekitty Posts: 188
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Well if it's JJ Abrahms you won't be able to see anything for all the lense flare


    :lol:
  • steerpike
    steerpike Posts: 424
    Director: David Lynch
    Armstrong: Kriss Akabusi
    Hamilton: Charlize Theron
    Bruyneel: Brian Cant
    David Walsh: Shane MacGowan
    Ferrari: Pat Nevin
    Pantani: Ben Kingsley (Sir)
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,122
    I'd like Quentin Tarantino to direct.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Sheryl Crow = Edina from Absolutely Fabulous
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    steerpike wrote:
    Director: David Lynch
    Armstrong: Kriss Akabusi
    Hamilton: Charlize Theron
    Bruyneel: Brian Cant
    David Walsh: Shane MacGowan
    Ferrari: Pat Nevin
    Pantani: Ben Kingsley (Sir)


    Brian Can't, shurely? I fear he might be already dead (?)

    As for Kriss Akabusi; why is he so funny?
  • Bakunin
    Bakunin Posts: 868
    Kimmage -- Christopher Walken
    the Hog -- Ian McShane
  • steerpike
    steerpike Posts: 424
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    steerpike wrote:
    Director: David Lynch
    Armstrong: Kriss Akabusi
    Hamilton: Charlize Theron
    Bruyneel: Brian Cant
    David Walsh: Shane MacGowan
    Ferrari: Pat Nevin
    Pantani: Ben Kingsley (Sir)


    Brian Can't, shurely? I fear he might be already dead (?)

    As for Kriss Akabusi; why is he so funny?

    Cant lives - check your facts before coming on here and slating me from all directions.

    As for Akabussi - if ever a man was born for a role.
  • sadlybiggins
    sadlybiggins Posts: 158
    Is the strapline for the film going to be "Awoooga, choads" then?
  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    Hein Verbruggen - Larry David
    Christophe Bassons - Dylan Moran

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