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Jun 21, 2024 · One of the first such clubs was the McCook Outlaws, which formed in McCook, Illinois, in the 1930s. After a period of dormancy during World War II, the group came back together and ultimately...
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Jun 21, 2024 · The Bikeriders, Nichols’ first film since 2016’s Loving, tells the story of the Vandals, a 1960s Chicago motorcycle club loosely inspired by the real Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, the subject...
The Bikeriders is named after Danny Lyon's photo book of the same title, which filmmaker Jeff Nichols read for the first time in 2003. The story's Vandals MC is inspired by the book's detailing of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club .
Aug 12, 2024 · The Outlaws originated almost 90 years ago. While The Bikeriders documents the founding and rise of the fictional Vandals starting in the 1960s, the Outlaws’ true story began three decades...
Jun 20, 2024 · The film has a real-life basis, but large parts are fictionalized. Director Jeff Nichols cites 2003 when his younger brother gave him Danny Lyon’s book The Bikeriders as the root of the project...
Jun 21, 2024 · The very first picture on the first page of The Bikeriders is a portrait of a very handsome guy. He was from upstate New York, a University of Chicago student. His name was Frank Jenner. He had entered school, and he had been a motorcycle racer—this was as an eighteen-year-old.
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Jun 16, 2024 · The Bikeriders was inspired by photojournalist Danny Lyon’s 1968 The Bikeriders, a non-fictional book. In 1963, Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club to better understand the subjects of his research.