The thriller "Loot" with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in the roles of police officers from South Florida became the subject of a high-profile dispute over the limits of creative freedom.
Two officers, Jonathan Santana and Jason Smith, claim that the film "contains too many real details" taken from a real 2016 case in which more than USD 21 million concealed in buckets, in which they played key roles as investigators. Following the film's premiere, the defendants intended to create the false impression among their friends, family members, and co-workers that they had committed the crimes depicted in the film, namely participation in a conspiracy to steal proceeds derived from drug trafficking, the murder of a supervisor, the arson of residential buildings, and the killing of a federal agent.
