In the middle of the pandemic and just ahead of warnings of Ontario’s disastrous third wave of COVID-19 infections, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was settling a lawsuit over the movie “Run This Town”.
The film, which premiered at SXSW in 2019 before being released in early March 2020, features a fictionalized story about a bloated and tyrannical Toronto mayor named Rob and the young millennials employed at city hall and at a local newspaper when news of a crack scandal breaks.
Written and directed by Ricky Tollman and starring Ben Platt, and Canadians Nina Dobrev, Mena Massoud and Scott Speedman, British star Damian Lewis stepped into the role of the rage-filled mayor under heavy prosthetics.