A few years ago the talk was about Jake and Matt Damon competing to play Lance Armstrong in a biopic. After all the of the recent events there was a Whew... Jake missed that bullet.
But would he consider going for a second round?
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are planning to make a movie about Lance's epic rise and fall. They’ve secured the screen rights to Cycle Of Lies: The Fall Of Lance Armstrong, a proposal for a book that will be written by Juliet Macur for HarperCollins. "
"Macur is a sports reporter for The New York Times, and she has covered Armstrong for over a decade, through the cyclist’s recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France title." She's covered the doping allegations long before Lance's confession to Oprah.
While the movie Jake was in the running for was a heroic story of triumphant over adversity, Abram's picture will be a fall of grace story which in fact would be a more compelling story. The complexity of the deception and the complicated layered character study of a man deceiving the world and himself that he's doing anything wrong. Talk about Oscar bait.
So WWJGD?
Would he throw his hat in the ring for the new picture about the fallen hero and use what he knows about Lance?
Or does he walk about and say "whew.....that was a close one"?



