Back in 2009, Alex Gibney had been hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's come back. The project was shelved when the scandal re opened after Armstrong's confession, and erupted. The Armstrong Lie introduces a provocative, insider's perspective of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the annals of sport and sees in 2013. As Lance Armstrong says ,"I did not live a lot of slides, but I dwelt one major one."