The filmmakers were under no artistic or moral obligation to stick with Tyler and his TDF story once he was involved in a doping crisis - a distraction at the very least that would not be quickly resolved in any case.

They ended up following the personal stories of 2 other riders and required filming beyond the TDF in the form of re-shoots and re-enactments. Unfortunate and expensive for them and they lost a sense of timeliness as well. I don’t think it disingenuous.

The footage of TH would make an interesting documentary. What would be the point of view of the finished project? Would it be mostly TH - would he really want to be part of a film that also explored the wiring of the brain on dope?

Your rant makes a persuasive case
for a film that was never intended by the filmmakers. I do wish to see the film that they made. I live 3 hrs from the closest theater
so I may never see it.

I’m upset because the film’s change in focus, made over a year after filming ended, says to me the desire to make money, not the urge to create art, entertainment, or to inform the public, was what dictated the final cut. I (and I think most other people, too) would rather watch a creatively-driven, well-thought out movie about a doper, even one of Virenque-like virulence, than a patched together, last-minute, hack-job about the cleanest rider ever to throw his or her leg over a bike. Knowing that this conversion from sweeping creative vision to piecemeal re-edit was monitarily motivated only furthers my frustration with the switch.

I live roughly three hours from the Museum of Science in Boston, so it’s a bit of a trek for me as well. But I’ll probably see “Wired to Win” anyway. Watching the team behind it fold under the weight of preceived public opinion like so much overcooked lasagna has certainly taken away a lot of the excitement for me, though.