Popular Documented Figures That May Be Completely Made Up

Donald Kaufman

Here’s a fictional character that is 100% made up. In 2002’s hit film Adaptation, Nicholas Cage played Donald Kaufman, a character the audience is led to believe is the brother of someone called Charlie. Viewers were convinced that the screenwriter, Charlie, actually had a brother named Donald. As it turns out, Donald was completely made up, and thought up in a moment of quiet inspiration while working on the script. It’s starting to feel a little bit like Inception, over here.

Donald Kaufman