Is ‘The Man From Toronto’ based on a true story?

Everything Kevin Hart Wants The man from Toronto—a new action comedy that has started airing on netflix today – is to give his wife the perfect birthday weekend.

Hart’s character, Teddy, is known for being kind of a screw-up, but he’s determined to get it right, so he books a cabin for a romantic weekend. Unfortunately, thanks to a low toner situation, the address on Teddy’s printed instructions is smudged. He accidentally walks into the wrong cabin, only to find a group of creepy men torturing a guy for information. In fact, the scary men expect Teddy to commit the torture, as they believe he is “the man from Toronto”, a deadly assassin. What crazy confusion!

Also starring Woody Harrelson as the real “Man from Toronto,” this is a classic goofball comedy paired with a badass. But it’s also, if you can believe it, at least partially inspired by the true story of a (significantly less chaotic) Airbnb mix-up.

East The man from Toronto based on a true story?

Kind of. The man from Toronto is not based on a true story in the sense that there is no real incident in which an ordinary guy was mistaken for a deadly assassin. The characters of Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson are completely fictional. But The man from Toronto is inspired by a true story, in the sense that producer Jason Blumenthal (not to be confused with horror mogul Jason Blum) came up with the idea for the film after being the victim of a much less deadly Airbnb mix-up .

In an interview for The man from Toronto press notes, Blumenthal recalled his trip to Denver to spend Thanksgiving with his wife’s family, where he rented an Airbnb for the entire extended family. “We arrived at our Airbnb and it was a side-by-side duplex, a beautiful modern farmhouse with a door on the left and a door on the right, and identical for every reason to believe there were two different units there. interior,” says Blumenthal. “We came in, the cousins ​​came in, the brothers came in, and we had been there for about an hour…And we started looking at our watches and we were like, ‘Where are [my in-laws] Kent and Lyla?

Turns out the in-laws had arrived and started unpacking…in the wrong house. “The next door was open, and they had come in by chance and dropped off all their things. When they looked up they saw an entirely different family sitting in the living room that wasn’t us,” Blumenthal said. “We had the best laugh ever. We hung out with the other family. We couldn’t believe it. It was one of those times – wrong place, wrong time – that we laughed at for the rest of the week.

For Blumenthal’s family, it was simply a harmless mistake that resulted in a good laugh and some new friends. But the producer could only imagine what might have happened if these strangers had been a little less nice. “I thought, ‘Can you imagine if Kent and Lyla walked into the wrong Airbnb and there was something else going on, something they shouldn’t see, something no one should ?'” From there, Blumenthal hired screenwriter Robbie Fox (Jackass Forever, play to keep) to execute the idea in a screenplay, and the rest is history.

So this is it. Always make sure to verify your Airbnb address before unpacking!

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