Wheel-life drama: J.J. Abrams to make Lance Armstrong movie

Wheel-life drama: J.J. Abrams to make Lance Armstrong movie

J.J ABRAMS is set to make a film about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.

And Bourne star Matt Damon is being measured up for the famous yellow jumper in the movie.

The Star Trek director and Paramount Pictures have snapped up the rights to Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong – a book on the rise and fall of the Tour de France legend that is being penned by journalist Juliet Macur.

The American won the prestigious race seven times in a row — between 1999 to 2005 – but was stripped of his titles after it emerged he was engaged in a huge doping scandal.

Last week he admitted taking banned substances during a confessional interview with chat queen Oprah Winfrey.

Another movie based on his life, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was dropped by Sony after the scandal emerged.

The sportsman’s close friend, Matthew McConaughey, recently revealed he had been annoyed about the lies surrounding his glittering career.

He said: “My first reaction was I was p***ed off. I was mad. I then got kind of sad for him. First off, I had a part of me that took it kind of personally, which I think a lot of people have.

“For him, it was impersonal because he was living a lie. It was a whole unanimous facade he had to carry around.

“What I realised is that those of us that took that personally, like, ‘Oh, he lied to me,’ it’s not true.

“What I mean by this is, what was he supposed to do? Call me to the side and go, ‘Hey man, I did it but don’t tell anybody.’ Then I would have really had a reason to be p***ed off at him, going, ‘You want me to walk around holding this?’