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Matt Damon to play Lance in film

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,475 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I can't believe they didn't cast Jake. He has a Trek and everything!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    Or Matthew McConaughey.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    This has been around as an idea for a long time - 3 years ago it was old news. I really doubt that the project will go ahead, at least not any version of it that LA had in mind when he was still starting rumours about himself as future governor of Texas and Matt Damon hadn't swollen to the size of said state.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Who is going to play cancer? Tommy Lee Jones would be good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    niceonetom wrote: »

    Tbf he put on weight to play a role in some film, I presume he is back down now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Tbf he put on weight to play a role in some film, I presume he is back down now.

    He was in a live broadcast of 30 Rock last week - he looked just as portly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    It'll be tough work getting all that weight off, but I'd say he's the type of guy who can do it.

    Mind you - it'll be hard work getting down to Lance's cancer weight. You'd really need Christian Bale for that job - ever seen The Machinist?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    He has the cancer look down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Yeah, the informant was the one where he put on the fat, then invictus he just bulked up. I don't doubt that he can alter his weight again to play Lance.

    Lance will probably feck it up, to George Lucas proportions, by wanting to turn one movie into 9: the first 3 featuring his rise to power, then his fall to the Dark side and eventually his reign as emperor of texas. I bet Lance is planning to build a Death Star, Floyd Landis could be played by Jar Jar Binks: "Meesa one crazy mofo".

    What's amazing about Bale is he did that movie right before Batman Begins, where he gained 45 Kg in 6 months:

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    Surely not healthy and must have taken some amount of work.


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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Bale's diet to get down to what he wanted for The Machinist was a can of tuna and an apple a day.

    His next film was Batman, which required him to bulk up again. He ended up putting on so much muscle that director Christopher Nolan asked him to drop some of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,475 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    el tonto wrote: »
    Bale's diet to get down to what he wanted for The Machinist was a can of tuna and an apple a day.

    Maybe all the heavy metals in the tuna were what turned him mental.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    DirkVoodoo wrote: »
    What's amazing about Bale is he did that movie right before Batman Begins, where he gained 45 Kg in 6 months:

    It amazing what a contract worth millions, a personal trainer, cook and some HGH can do...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Definitely not healthy gaining that much weight so quickly. I'd say his heart is in a jock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,475 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    mloc123 wrote: »
    It amazing what a contract worth millions, a personal trainer, cook and some HGH can do...

    ....
    The actor considered experimenting with the substances when he was trying to build up his physique for roles in ‘Batman Begins‘ and ‘American Psycho‘.

    “A number of people have said, ‘You could never have done that without some kind of steroids.’ Not to say I wasn’t tempted.

    “When I was getting ready for ‘American Psycho‘ I’d never been in a gym in my life and I was working out like crazy, so I thought, ‘Maybe it ain’t such a big deal, just take some ‘roids’ and I can speed up this whole process.’ “

    He explained: “I called up the store where they’re selling that sort of stuff and asked, ‘Have you used it? And side effects?’ ‘No no. I mean, really minimal. Your balls might shrink and you might get acne.’ I’m like, there’s no way in hell I’m going to touch anything like that and damn those who think I did.”

    While he shunned illegal substances to transform his appearance, Christian did undergo cosmetic dental work - which he still regrets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    mloc123 wrote: »
    It amazing what a contract worth millions, a personal trainer, cook and some HGH can do...

    Don't forget the most important part: Being told if you do it, you will get to dress up like Batman for a few months. To me, that's the real prize!


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    ^ that's kind of cute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    el tonto wrote: »
    ^ that's kind of cute.

    I have already looked into this, but I couldn't justify the 600 euro to buy a costume:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    Will Matthew McConaughey be playing himself?


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Not to mention Robin Williams:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭Junior


    Isn't Damon just voicing a documentary on Lance ? Not starring as Lance ? Dam - google tells me it looks like it's going to be both ..

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/10/lance-armstrong-doping-alberto-contador-matt-damon-tour-de-france.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭CarlosK


    Who is going to play cancer? Tommy Lee Jones would be good.

    not funny at all dude....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Didn't mean to offend. Scepticism about Lance equating to a love of cancer is a bit of a running joke. Cancer isn't something I would usually joke about but I assumed that those frequenting this forum would understand the context.

    Just occurred to me - does Tommy Lee Jones have cancer? I only mentioned him as he is good at playing smart asses and he is from Lance's part of the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭CarlosK


    Didn't mean to offend. Scepticism about Lance equating to a love of cancer is a bit of a running joke. Cancer isn't something I would usually joke about but I assumed that those frequenting this forum would understand the context.

    Just occurred to me - does Tommy Lee Jones have cancer? I only mentioned him as he is good at playing smart asses and he is from Lance's part of the world.

    Not sure about Tommy Lee having any medical conditions, I'd be on the forums a bit here and would pay no notice usually to any of the Lance slagging, but love or hate him, he's beaten cancer so far and not only managed to live but played a huge part in a professional sport afterwards. I'm not going into the whole drug use debate, the thing for me is that he's survived a serious bout of cancer and don't think it should be joked about at all. I can only assume that we all know at least one person who's been affected by it somehow. Maybe I'm just being touchy, but its just how I feel about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    CarlosK wrote: »
    I can only assume that we all know at least one person who's been affected by it somehow.
    yeah, so lets joke about it. most of us will probably end up with it anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,475 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    CarlosK wrote: »
    he's beaten cancer

    He didn't "beat" cancer, he was cured of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    CarlosK wrote: »
    not funny at all dude....

    Who put you in charge of what's funny?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    yeah, so lets joke about it. most of us will probably end up with it anyway.

    Only a third of us ;)

    (another third will get heart disease and the rest will bite the dust from something else )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭Junior


    Since we are discussing batman I shall tell a joke ..

    A guy was doing an interview and was asked, "what's your biggest weakness ?" he replied "Well I suppose my grip on reality." "And what's your strongest attribute ?" he replied "I'm batman"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    I'm predicting a real twist in the plot at the end of this film.


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