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    'Highwaymen' director John Lee Hancock on Netflix's 'real movies' and surviving Weinstein Co.

    by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2019 5 minutes

    As a filmmaker, John Lee Hancock has a penchant for coming at a real-life story from a surprising angle, whether it's recounting the bumpy road to Disney's "Mary Poppins" in 2013's "Saving Mr. Banks" or revealing the warts-and-all story behind the creation of McDonald's in 2016's "The Founder."

    "I'm always on the hunt for a good story, whether it's made up or whether it's true, and these are just the ones that got made," says Hancock, who also directed the 2009 feel-good real-life sports drama "The Blind Side," which earned a best picture Oscar nomination. "But whenever you have a great story and it says at the end of it, 'And it's all true' - that has weight. It's like a cherry on top."

    True to form, Hancock's latest film,

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