Alex Gibney’s Lance Armstrong Doc Picked up by Sony Pictures Classics

Today it was announced that Sony Pictures Classics have acquired the rights to Alex Gibney‘s upcoming documentary The Armstrong Lie, which looks at the life of the now disgraced Lance Armstrong.  Gibney most recently released We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, and has been banging out docs like crazy for the last few years.

This film will tell Armstrong’s story by featuring candid interviews with his doctors and teammates, and surprisingly, Armstrong himself.  Sony hasn’t announced a release date s of yet, hit the break to read the full synopsis.

Lance Armstrong was considered one of the greatest sports figures of all time and put competitive cycling into the global spotlight, by beating cancer and winning the Tour de France seven times.  That success earned him an immense fortune and worldwide fame.  His was also one of the most influential and inspiring sports stories of recent memory and became a pop culture phenomenon, thanks to his Livestrong initiative.  Beginning in 2009, Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney followed Armstrong for four years chronicling his return to cycling after retirement, as he tried to win his eighth title.  Unexpectedly, Gibney was also there in 2012 when Armstrong admitted to doping, following a federal criminal investigation, public accusations of doping by his ex-teammates, and an investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency, that led USADA’s CEO, Travis Tygart, to conclude that Armstrong’s team had run “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”