Is it Warner Bros. vs Paramount Pictures for Lance Armstrong movies?

First it was Paramount Pictures and now Warner Bros. has also joined the league to bring a movie on Lance Armstrong to the silver screen. Film studio Warner Bros. has reportedly got their hands on the rights to make an untitled project about the rise and fall of American road cyclist Lance Armstrong. According to an entertainment blog, the project will be developed by Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, scripted by Scott Z. Burns and directed by Jay Roach of Recount and Game Change fame. The life rights of former cyclist Tyler Hamilton, a teammate of Armstrong in the US Postal Service Team are also included in the deal.

Earlier it was reported that Paramount and Bad Robot, the production company of J.J. Abrams, were working on a film about Armstrong's controversial career. The film will be an adaptation of the book Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by New York Times reporter Juliet Macur. Macur is known to have covered the cyclist's career since his recovery from testicular cancer and penned his dramatic fall from a seven-time Tour de France winner to a disgraced drug cheat. Though Armstrong denied using performance-enhancing drugs, he confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he took prohibited stuff and received blood transfusions throughout most of his racing career and during all the Tour de France races he had won.

The seven consecutive Tour de France titles were taken away from Armstrong due to the doping allegations made by the US Anti-Doping Agency. He even told Winfrey in an interview that it would have been impossible to win the Tour de France without the help of those banned substances. To quote the USADA’s report, the US Postal Team "ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".