While it might be based on a true story, The Bikeriders is not entirely rooted in reality. The movie is inspired by Danny Lyon’s photobook, which featured images from the time he spent with the real-world Outlaws Motorcycle Club. It stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Norman Reedus, and more. It had its full domestic premiere on June 21 and Bikeriders has received fairly positive reviews.

Even after its release, the movie’s roots can be difficult to navigate. In an interview with Digital Spy, writer and director Jeff Nichols opened up about how much of the movie actually came from Lyon’s book and how much of it was inspired by real-world events. Much of the dialogue is from the book, but there is not much plot available there to sift through, leaving Nichols to “invent” the rest of the story. Check out his full quote below:

I would say 70% of the dialogue is taken from this book, certainly of Kathy’s dialogue. To say that this story follows these real people, that’s not true either. It is this really odd hybrid where we had Danny [Lyon, author] visiting these people in 1965, and then he was done. And that’s all I really had. So I had to invent everything before and everything after. It really is a balance of saying: these are fictional characters, but they hold a lot of reality in them, taking directly out of Danny’s book.

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Source: Digital Spy