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What Australian case is this based on?


Since this is an Australian movie and it is apparently based on true events, can anyone living there tell me more about it or where I can find some info?

Linda

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Scroll down. A bloke mentions... oh what the hell... here, Whannell and Sampson discuss that a bit: http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2014/03/mule-leigh-whannell-angu s-sampson.html

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That url 404's, here is the link -


http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2014/03/mule-leigh-whannell-angus-sampson.html

It says it is based on something that happened in NZ, but it doesn't go into any details (I dont think)......

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http://www.movies.com/movie-news/leigh-whannell-interview-the-mule/17167?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

Movies.com: How close is The Mule to the true story that inspired it?

Whannell: We did base it on a few different things that have happened over the years. There's one story in particular, but I've been told for legal reasons I can't say what it was, but there was one gentleman who held out for quite some time. All of the characters in the movie have been embellished and created, though I must also say that I think the "based on a true story" tag is in some ways a cheeky homage to the Coen brothers and the way they opened Fargo with the crawl "This film is based on true events," and when people do their research, they discover nothing happened. It both is and isn't based on a true story.


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