When most people hear the word DeLorean, they think of the time-traveling car invented by Chistopher Llyod's Dr. Emmett Brown of BACK TO THE FUTURE fame. Ever since 1985, director Robert Zemeckis' comedic sci-fi trilogy has helped to make the stylish automobile one of the most recognizable among pop culture enthusiasts, and now a new crime thriller called DRIVEN is poised to put the very cool vehicle back in the spotlight.
Universal Pictures today waved their checkered flag and let a trailer for director Nick Hamm's DRIVEN out of the gate. Starring Jason Sudeikis (COLOSSAL, HORRIBLE BOSSES 2), Lee Pace (THE FALL, CAPTAIN MARVEL) and Judy Greer (ANT-MAN, JURASSIC WORLD), DRIVEN is set in California during the early 1980s. The story follows the meteoric rise of the golden boy of the automotive industry, John DeLorean (Pace) and his iconic DeLorean Motor Company, through the eyes of his friendship with charming, ex-con pilot turned FBI informant, Jim Hoffman (Sudeikis). DeLorean turned to unsavory activities to save his financially troubled DeLorean Motor Company, and it was Hoffman who was all too willing to lure the car designer/engineer into a cocaine trafficking ring set up by the FBI.
Pace stars as the charismatic John DeLorean, while Sudeikis plays FBI informant Jim Hoffman. Isabel Arraiza (AMERICAN DREAMER, THE OATH) also stars as Cristina DeLorean, DeLorean’s fashion model wife, while Judy Greer is Ellen Hoffman, Hoffman’s direct, no nonsense wife and Corey Stoll (FIRST MAN, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS) is ambitious FBI Special Agent Benedict Tisa.
Written by Colin Bateman, with co-scripting by Alejandro Carpio, DRIVEN is framed as a comedic crime thriller of a bromance gone horribly wrong.
DRIVEN is set to race into theaters, and arrive via On Demand / Digital HD on August 16, 2019.