5 Movie Trailers That Led To Lawsuits
2. The Movie Isn't Actually Anything Like Fast And Furious - Drive
In another instance of a film not exactly providing what it supposedly said on the trailer tin with its eventual finished product, here's that time the Ryan Gosling-starring Drive drove one particular fan around the bend upon sitting down in a cinema.
According to a Michigan resident by the name of Sarah Deming, this film had actually been framed as a Fast and Furious-esque speeding action flick in its trailers, claiming in her statement that Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive "bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film ... having very little driving in the motion picture".
Going further, Deming would go on to claim that the eventual flick she saw also "substantially contained extreme, gratuitous, dehumanising racism directed at members of the Jewish faith, and thereby promoted criminal violence against members of the Jewish faith". And some five years on from filing the suit in 2011, Deming's lawyer would bring forward another lawsuit claiming that Refn, actor Albert Brooks, Sony, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, and AMC, were all in on a large conspiracy together.
At least Deming has likely been more than satisfied with Vin Diesel's petrol-pumped output in the years since 2011, but that still won't give her those 100-minutes of unexpected neo-noir back.