Netflix receives a lawsuit over true story-based film 'No Limit'
Netflix is sued for suggesting that the real-life diver deliberately
killed his wife in the fictionalised version of the story, titled No
Limit.
The film is based on a real-life celebrity couple in the
world of free-diving, Francisco Francisco Ferreras aka Pipin, and his wife,
Audrey Mestre.
Ferreras's wife Mestre, died in the year 2002
while diving in the Dominican Republic, after the device that was supposed
to carry her to the surface malfunctioned, as per Variety.
On Wednesday, March 29, Ferreras filed a defamation lawsuit
against the streaming giant for showing him as a murderer in the film. The
film also shows him choking Mestre in a loving-making scene and both
cheating on each other, preceding an intense confrontation before the deadly
dive.
Ferreras said in a phone interview from his home in Cuba,
"I don’t know how people can do something like that, They turned the story
around. They put it the way they wanted. That really hurt me."
The
writer-director of the film, David M. Rosenthal, told the outlet that the
film was vetted by lawyers before it went into production.
He said, "This is a fictionalization of stories that were very
much on the public eye — from documentaries to many articles and books about
this, What I wrote is fiction, with fictional characters…I’m sure he’s
trying to make a buck here by suing Netflix."
No Limit was
released in September 2022 and became the most-watched non-English film on
the streaming giant.
Ferreras maintains that Mestre's death was a
tragic accident and is attempting to produce his own documentary about the
story.
