For an epic tale, Lance Armstrong is getting the epic treatment.

J.J. Abrams’ company has signed the rights to make a movie detailing the rise and fall of the disgraced cyclist, Deadline reports.

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong is the tentative title of a book that will be written by New York Times reporter Juliet Macur, published through HarperCollins.

Its movie rights were scooped up Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions, paving the way for Abrams (Star Trek, Lost) to bring the doping scandal to the big screen.

In an interview aired Thursday night, Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he doped through all seven Tour de France wins. He has been stripped of those titles, and learned just this week that the International Olympic Committee has withdrawn the bronze medal he won in Sydney in 2000.

The second part of Armstrong’s doping confession to Winfrey will air Friday night.

Sony already had a biopic of Armstrong in the works — with Armstrong on board, Deadline reported — but the project was put on hold when Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France titles in August. Jake Gyllenhaal had been slated to portray Armstrong in the tale of the once-heroic cancer survivor who went on to win the yellow jersey.

Macur has been there to chronicle his fall from grace for the New York Times, and told WEEI 93.7 FM that Armstrong’s confession has nothing to do with a burden of guilt.

“He’s coming forward because he wants to compete again,” Macur said in the radio interview.