Pain Hustlers draws inspiration from real life events, and director David Yates explains whether Emily Blunt's Liza Drake is based on anyone specific.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Pain Hustlers director David Yates explains whether Emily Blunt's character is inspired by a real person. The new Netflix original movie is a crime drama surrounding the story of Liza Drake , a woman hired to work for a bankrupt pharmaceutical company who finds herself accidentally in the middle of a criminal conspiracy.
Now, Yates explains the origin of Liza Drake, and whether she is based on a real person. Speaking with Forbes, he mentioned that Liza was “a composite of many different personalities.” While he and the Pain Hustlers team drew from “the characters of the Insys story,” the character of Liza was ultimately their “creation.” Check out the full quote from Yates below:
“There were various characters in this story, men and women, who all feed into Liza. She’s a composite of many different personalities and also partly our own creation as well. We wanted this woman who was ambitious, and idealistic, and perhaps a little bit naive, and who had not always been recognized for the ability that she had, because of her background, her sort of low income status, her lack of education.
How Pain Hustlers Draws On Real-Life Events Pain Hustlers was adapted for the screen by writer Wells Tower, based on Evan Hughes’ 2022 book The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup. Hughes' book tells the true story of an early 2000s startup company called Insys Therapeutics. Founded by businessman John Kapoor, Insys exploded in success before it was revealed its executives were involved in various racketeering schemes, which included pushing their drugs and bribing doctors.
Pain Hustlers takes this shocking true story and adapts it into a fictional tale. As in the case with Liza Drake, the movie takes creative liberties in this adaptation process. Divorced from the real-life people, Tower’s script fictionalizes Insys Therapeutics as Zanna Therapeutics, and bases the characters loosely on those who may have worked within the controversial company.
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