Are you surprised that a feature film hasn’t been made about John DeLorean?
It's a question we asked just months ago when the trailer for Framing John DeLorean dropped; a bizarre film that's part documentary, part recreation of the life of one of automotive history's most charismatic characters. Now for whatever reason, we're getting two John DeLorean films in one year. The second one, titled Driven, is even more bizarre; a comedy/heist/buddy film starring Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy) as DeLorean and Jason Sudeikis as a con man looking to set DeLorean up for the fall.
Is this fiction? Is this an exaggeration? Well, we know that DeLorean's career was ultimately derailed by the less than stellar cars the DeLorean Motor Company was producing, but his drug bust (set up or not), certainly did not help. By the end, once the dust had settled, even DeLorean himself said; "Would you buy a used car from me?"
So we'll take this movie as one of those "Based on True Events" type of movies that leans into a little bit of truth for the idea but happily flaps its gull-wing doors away into the land of fiction.
Driven is directed by Nick Hamm (Killing Bono) and co-stars Judy Greer, Michael Cudlitz, and Corey Stoll- the perfect "oh yeah! That guy/girl!" trio of co-stars. The film opens in-theatres and on-demand on August 16th.