Anyone could see decades ago that John DeLorean, the tall, lean Hollywood-looking ex-GM car executive, who produced the gull-winged DeLorean sports car in Northern Ireland and got busted for cocaine trafficking -- was a movie waiting to happen.
It took awhile. Susan Whitall of the Detroit News reports that a movie on his life is finally in the making. He died in 2005 at age 80.
Whitall reports that she chatted with DeLorean's attorney Mayer “Mike” Morganroth, who said he is the executive producer of the biopic.
DeLorean wed four times, once to Cristine Ferrare, and oversaw the debut of the Pontiac GTO in the 1960s for GM. He went on to produce the gull-winged DeLorean, which was featured in the film "Back to the Future" in 1985. The company went broke and DeLorean got involved in a major cocaine deal to help save the company. He was busted in 1982 in Los Angeles, but was later acquitted, claiming the feds entrapped him.
Whitall writes:
Morganroth won’t say who the director is, but the film, which will start shooting in two to three months, is being produced by Steve Jones, who did the Kevorkian movie starring Al Pacino. Hugh Jackman is being touted to play DeLorean, and either Richard Dreyfuss or Dustin Hoffman is up for the role of the veteran attorney.
