14 DAY TRIAL // Lance Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France titles and disgraced by his recent admission of doping. Filmmaker Alex Gibney (“We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks”) was among the people who stood by Armstrong through the doping scandal, even documenting his comeback after the cancer battle for a documentary.
As the first trailer for it, embedded above, shows, Gibney’s documentary took on a very different turn when Armstrong went on Oprah and declared he had been using illegal substances to enhance his performance since the mid-‘90s.
So, “The Armstrong Lie” stopped being a documentary defending Armstrong against false allegations, and became a project that documented his rise to and fall from grace.
As Gibney himself explains in the trailer, the film is not about a doping scandal, but a story about power – and how Armstrong attained and used that power for his own purpose, deceiving the sports’ world and fans for years.
“The Armstrong Lie” will be out in select theaters on November 8.