It was announced in August 2022 that Nichols would also direct the film, with Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy being cast. Telluride Awards Analysis: 'The Bikeriders' Opens Fest, Puts Jodie Comer in Hunt for First Oscar Nom".

In 1968, just before Easy Rider roared its way into American consciousness, Danny Lyon published The Bikeriders . First printing of Lyon's influential work, with an original vintage print of his photograph "Route 12, Wisconsin," the book's iconic cover image. The facsimile edition of Lyon's now classic, seminal work of photo-journalism, originally issued in 1968. If you don't get shoulder to shoulder an' learn to roll with the waves you're gonna get either walked on or awful frustated.The Bikeriders premiered as the opening film of the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023.

Danny Lyon's important first book, a documentary photo-essay on the Chicago Outlaws, a "motorcycle racing club," with texts from interviews with members of the gang. The journal-size title features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when Danny Lyon was a member of the Outlaws gang. Wish so much of the book wasn't taken up with interviews of the bikers, forming a loose history of the scene.On December 8, it was announced that Focus had scheduled the film for a theatrical release in the United States on June 21, 2024.