John DeLorean’s Life Hits The Big Screen
John DeLorean, the man responsible for Pontiac GTO and the Gull Wing Doored 1981 “DMC” Delorean, will have his life made into a feature film. No word yet on who will portray the automotive icon and deceased coke dealer, we’re keeping our fingers crossed for Christopher Lloyd.
DeLorean’s life certainly has movie qualities to it, claims thecarconnection blog The executive, who posed shirtless and lifting weights for Fortune magazine in his 40s, got the UK government to subsidize his factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to the tune of tens of millions of pounds. When the DeLorean Motor Company ran into financial troubles, he was arrested for drug trafficking by the FBI. Though he was ultimately acquitted on the grounds of entrapment, his reputation was ruined and the company collapsed into bankruptcy.
Producers of the film have secured rights from DeLorean’s son Zachary, who is also the executor of his estate, as well as DeLorean’s unpublished memoirs, various magazine articles about him, and the book Grand Delusions by author Hillel Levin. DeLorean’s dream of founding the first successful US car company in half a century, says the film’s director Alex Holmes with a fair degree of hyperbole, “brought him head-to-head with both the British and American establishment and they destroyed him.” Holmes calls the story “a crime thriller with such a great tragic hero at its heart.”
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