Lee Pace didn’t know much about John DeLorean when he signed on to play the late automobile mogul in the new biopic “Driven.” He was aware of the DeLorean car that was immortalized in “Back to the Future” and, he says, “I had a sense of a scandal.”That scandal was DeLorean’s downfall in the 1980s when he was charged by the FBI with brokering a deal, with the help of friend-turned-informant Jim Hoffman (played by Jason Sudeikis), to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to try and save his flailing DeLorean Motor Company.
Despite being acquitted after his legal team argued he was illegally entrapped by FBI and Hoffman, he never regained his footing.“Who knows actually what really happened?” Pace said.
“Whoever knows what actually happens in these things? You understand the version that is agreed upon at the end of it, but who knows what happens
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