Jesus ...
When exactly did this become the misguided battle-cry of any movie, which even remotely resembles real life? Have some dignity and if you believe in your story/movie state "Fictional Story, but Awesome Movie."
And seriously, could this flick piggy-back off of "American Hustle" anymore than it already does, sniffing for Oscar-bait.
The story of BreX has absolutely nothing in common with the story American Hustle was loosely based on. The world and history are full of financial scams. BreX was one of the more interesting ones.
-- is that screenplays that come without any intellectual property attached (such as a novel, a comic book, a video game, a previous movie or TV show, etc) are enormously difficult to set up these days -- waaaayy more difficult than they used to be -- and the feeling is that a true story is a much easier "sell" to producers, who can look up the "real event" online and see that newspapers and magazines have already run stories about it... that people have already blogged about it... that there are videos about it running on YouTube, etc.
The idea is that if you're lucky, an enterprising producer will think: "Hmmm. Here's an event that other people have already found interesting, so maybe the movie-going public will too!"
And that's why we're seeing a proliferation now of movies based on "true stories" and also movies that are "inspired by true events." (Don'tcha just love that last one? Cuz let's face it, it pretty much means: "The following is 99.9 percent bull****.")
See you opening weekend then!
Whatever you are, be a good one.