{"id":1305,"date":"2018-09-16T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2018-10-02T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:06:06","slug":"fast-cars-cocaine-and-bad-fashion-nick-hamms-driven-revisits-the-delorean-scandal-toronto-studio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/fast-cars-cocaine-and-bad-fashion-nick-hamms-driven-revisits-the-delorean-scandal-toronto-studio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Cars, Cocaine And Bad Fashion: Nick Hamm\u2019s \u2018Driven\u2019 Revisits The DeLorean Scandal \u2013 Toronto Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deadline-hollywood-logo-o\"The rise and fall of John DeLorean, the automotive kingpin brought down by a cocaine scandal in 1982, is\u2014surprisingly\u2014the basis of one of the more purely entertaining films to screen at TIFF this year. Played for laughs, but with a core seriousness that notes the FBI\u2019s nefarious involvement in DeLorean\u2019s undoing, Nick Hamm\u2019s Driven came straight to Toronto from Venice, where it closed the festival. Stopping by the Deadline studio with cast members Lee Pace (who plays John DeLorean), Judy Greer, Jason Sudeikis and Isabel Arraiza, Hamm explained his decision to tell DeLorean\u2019s story from the point of view of his neighbor, a shady character named Jim Hoffman (played by Sudeikis).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat fascinated me about that story was [DeLorean] was a man that ultimately had everything,\u201d said Hamm. \u201cHe had the lifestyle, the hair, the car, the house, the money \u2026 and in this moment of crazy madness he did something [stupid] and gave it all away. That was really what we wanted to see, and we\u2019d tried for ages to try and find a way to tell that particular story. But the biopic version of that wasn\u2019t actually that interesting. And then we found out there was this character called Jim Hoffman, played by Jason, who was an absolute scumbag lowlife, and that character, we thought, was a way into telling the story of DeLorean. So essentially their relationship is a kind of bromance, it\u2019s a sort of weird buddy movie with these two quite dysfunctional men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how factually correct the story was, Hamm was adamant that it was about as factually correct as it ever could be. \u201cThe great thing you realize about any sort of research on the DeLorean story is that it\u2019s full of lies, that every single portion of it is a level of untruth. Even the court case \u2013 certainly elements of that were untrue. I quite like doing stories that have a sort of element of truth in them. [Because] what you\u2019re doing is, you\u2019re looking at history, but you\u2019re also very conscious that you\u2019re making a piece of entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Pace had plenty of resources to watch and read as he delved into the life of DeLorean, who died in 2005. But for Sudeikis and Greer, who plays Hoffman\u2019s wife, there really wasn\u2019t much information to draw on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could do no research,\u201d beamed Greer, \u201cbecause our characters have been in the witness protection program!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the government,\u201d added Sudeikis, \u201chas done a very good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more about Driven, click on the video above.<\/p>\n

Deadline Studio at TIFF 2018 presented by eOne. Special thanks to sponsor Watford Group, and partners Calii Love, Love Child Social, and Barocco Coffee.<\/p>\n

View this article at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rise and fall of John DeLorean, the automotive kingpin brought down by a cocaine scandal in 1982, is\u2014surprisingly\u2014the basis of one of the more purely entertaining films to screen at TIFF this year. Played for laughs, but with a core seriousness that notes the FBI\u2019s nefarious involvement in DeLorean\u2019s undoing, Nick Hamm\u2019s Driven came
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