We saw the teaser in June, but now the full trailer for The Program, Stephen Frears’ look at the Lance Armstrong doping scandal has arrived with a squeal of breaks and sweaty handles. Or something. Check it out below.
Adapted from sports journalist David Walsh’s book Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit Of Lance Armstrong, the film will follow the cyclist’s meteoric rise and equally fast fall once it was proved that he had been using performance-enhancing drugs during his successful years.
Frears has Chris O’Dowd playing Walsh, with Ben Foster as Armstrong. From the looks of this, it’s a dramatic retelling of Armstrong’s Tour de France years and then what happened when the truth came out, and the rabbit hole proved to be far deeper than anyone suspected. It’s already garnered some great reviews and promises to be something special, even if Armstrong probably wishes everyone would just leave it alone.
With Lee Pace, Jesse Plemons, Guillaume Canet, Dustin Hoffman and Bryan Greenberg also in the cast, The Program will pedal its way into UK cinemas on October 16.