Au contraire, m'dear. While I have not, as yet, seen the latest
Stallone travesty, the fact of the matter is,
George Lucas took the basic material with which he based
the Trilogy from
Joseph Campbell's
Hero With a Thousand Faces. Campbell outlines the
formula for the
hero story in his 400 page 1949 publication, based on his observations of stories from every culture, the world over. Lucas, according to
urban legend (the source I heard was an interveiw with
Joss Whedon) was inspired to use the basic
tenets outlined by Campbell to write his movies.
Star Wars was neither
original nor groundbreaking, instead taking elements of the
monomyth (to use a term coined by Campbell), which can be found in any folk story or
fairy tale, and
melding them with
science-fiction cantrips. For these reasons were the films such a
success.
If the
writers of
Driven chose to refer to the
classics to tell their story, more power to them.