Giroux requested Wimmer about his propensity for “film logic,” that’s: tales which might be over-the-top for actual life, however nonetheless really feel weirdly within the realm of chance. Wimmer defined that his screenplays all abide by a really strict code of internal logic, even when they’re set in a sci-fi universe, or if they start to spiral uncontrolled into motion bonanzas. He even argued that “Regulation Abiding Citizen” was so believable {that a} identified felony imitated it after the movie’s launch. He mentioned: 

“I consider my scripts are logical as a result of they don’t seem to be about quantum mechanics. I consider that they are essentially logical. I imply, if you wish to say, ‘Effectively, how does any person dig a tunnel into jail,’ it truly turned out that El Chapo did it. Now, he did it after ‘Regulation Abiding Citizen.’ I feel he copied the film, however they actually tunneled into jail. So, this stuff are potential. They’re unlikely, however they’re potential.”

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is the ex-leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who’s at the moment serving a life-plus-30-years jail sentence. Guzmán was identified for his tunnels and incessantly used underground passages to move medicine in secret. In 2014, Guzmán briefly evaded arrest by way of a secret community of tunnels beneath his and 5 different folks’s properties. In 2015 — and that is the half that seems like Wimmer’s thought — Guzmán escaped from jail by making a big, well-lit, well-ventilated tunnel with a bike in it. It was posited that he was sneaking out and in of jail to proceed his drug commerce. Oh yeah, and he escaped jail once more by way of a tunnel in 2016. The dude liked to burrow.

There isn’t any proof, nevertheless, that Guzmán was accustomed to “Regulation Abiding Citizen.”