"The Driver" was financed by EMI Films who announced they would make a second film with Hill, a Western he wrote with Roger Spottiswoode, "The Last Gun". However "The Driver" was a commercial failure in the United States. "To say it did not do well would be kind," said Hill. "Had I not been shooting "The Warriors" at the time, I don't think my career would have survived. They loved it overseas, but in those days, that didn't matter that much. It made exactly zero dollars in the United States. I remember the studio had this huge sheaf of Xeroxed reviews they'd handed me — you could stop a fucking .45 slug with this stack, it was so thick. And of all the reviews in this six-inch thick pile, there was only one good one." (In 2016 Hill would say that "whenever they show retrospectives of my stuff, it's usually the first thing they show. Sometimes you just have to wait it out.")