'Star Trek' director to make Armstrong flick

J.J. Abrams is to make a movie about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.

The 'Star Trek' director and his Paramount Pictures partner Bryan Burk have snapped up the screen rights for 'Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong', a proposal for a book set to be penned by New York Times reporter Juliet Macur, who has covered the drugs cheat for more than a decade, Deadline.com reports.