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Alex Gibney and Frank Marshall Talk Making 'The Armstrong Lie'
Alex Gibney and Frank Marshall discuss the making of their documentary, "The Armstrong Lie."
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenOscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney and uber-producer Frank Marshall talk about how they were seduced by "the beautiful life" of Lance Armstrong while making an uplifting movie about his 2009 come back. The filmmakers go into detail about how they shelved that film then remade it -- adding new material -- to make their new movie, The Armstrong Lie.
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Alex Gibney and Frank Marshall talk with Kim Masters about how they set out to make an uplifting film about Lance Armstrong's comeback ride in the 2009 Tour de France only to find that film too 'naive' to release. While in post production during 2010, Armstrong's former teammates went public with information about his doping.
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