The Tour de France is finally getting a film treatment, and cycling in general for that matter, in a new comedy called Tour de Frank.

The film will take a comic loook at the competitive world of bicycle racing according to Universal through Variety. Universal handed out US$800,000 against a US$1.5 million preemptive purchase of a pitch from Andrea King and Andy Marx.

Well done them, and finally a cycling film...well actually not. There was the horror Blood Trails (Filmstalker review) just recently which dabbled in Mountain Biking, and there was a film way back which I was convinced starred Michael O'Keefe from Caddyshack in it as a cyclist who no one was really supporting...am I getting films mixed up there? Can you think of more cycling films?