{"id":21991,"date":"2013-01-19T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/lance-armstrong-biopic-planned-paramount-113204827.html"},"modified":"2013-01-19T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:32:04","slug":"lance-armstrong-biopic-planned-by-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/lance-armstrong-biopic-planned-by-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong Biopic Planned By Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">After his much-publicised confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey, the story of Lance Armstrong is heading for the silver screen.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Pictures and producer J J Abrams&#8217; company, Bad Robot, have announced they are planning a biopic about the disgraced cyclist.<\/p>\n<p>The co-producers have secured the rights to the book Cycle Of Lies: The Fall Of Lance Armstrong by New York Times reporter Juliet Macur, which is due out in June.<\/p>\n<p>MS Macur covered the career of the seven-times Tour de France winner for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>No director, writer, star or start date have been set for the project.<\/p>\n<p>In a two-part interview with Winfrey on her fledgling OWN network, Armstrong has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs to reach his historic victories, something he had defiantly denied for years.<\/p>\n<p>Some 3.2 million viewers in the United States tuned in to see fallen cyclist&#8217;s confession that he was a drug cheat, the TV interviewer&#8217;s cable channel said .<\/p>\n<p>It was the most-watched show ever on the network after Winfrey&#8217;s March 2012 conversation with the family of late singer Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The figure does not include viewers in other countries, or the 1.1 million who watched a repeat immediately after the initial broadcast of the 90-minute special that was also streamed live on Oprah.com.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the much-anticipated interview ran against American Idol on the mainstream Fox network, which drew 16.2 million viewers during its two-hour broadcast, Variety reported.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment Weekly called the ratings &#8220;extremely strong&#8221;, but showbusiness trade journal Variety thought the numbers were &#8220;below what might have been expected considering the gravitas of the interview&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>US TV ratings authority Nielsen said the special &#8220;ranked among the top 20 most-watched primetime programmes for the night among all broadcast and cable networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>:: You can watch the full interview tonight (Saturday) on Discovery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his much-publicised confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey, the story of Lance Armstrong is heading for the silver screen.<br \/>\nParamount Pictures and producer J J Abrams&#8217; company, Bad Robot, have announced they are planning a biopic about the dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}