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Exclusive: Xyz Films’ untitled scripted documentary about John DeLorean has opened its falcon-wing doors to Morena Baccarin. The Deadpool actress will join the docu as Christina Ferrare, the wife of the titular automaker played by Alec Baldwin. The film will document DeLorean's rise to stardom as well as his shocking fall from grace. The film will merge scripted narrative scenes with real-life interviews with colleagues, employees, lawyers, friends and family who knew…...

Alec Baldwin has officially signed on to play John DeLorean, the man best known as the founder of the DeLorean Motor Company. The DeLorean is most famously known as the time-traveling car used by Marty McFly and Doc Brown in the Back To The Future trilogy. Variety reports that Baldwin will appear in a series of scripted scenes that will be added to the untitled documentary about Delorean.

Baldwin will be bringing his hair and makeup team from Saturday Night Live with him to transform him into DeLorean.

The film is being directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce and production is under way right now.

The untitled DeLorean documentary is scheduled to be released in 2018. The movie will follow the automaker’s rise to stardom and fall from grace. Complete with interviews with colleagues, employees, lawyers, friends and family who knew him best.

Xyz Films announced today that film star Alec Baldwin has signed on to play John DeLorean in a series of scripted scenes that will be added to their Untitled John DeLorean Documentary. Supporting roles for the narrative scenes are currently being cast. Baldwin's hair and makeup team from Saturday Night Live have also been enlisted to transform him into the iconic automobile maker.

The film is directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce (The Art of the Steal, Last Days Here, Batman & Bill) and produced by Tamir Ardon, Xyz Films and 9.14 Pictures and backed by Ingenious. Production is currently under way, with the narrative scenes to be shot shortly. Sundance Selects is distributing the film domestically, and the film is scheduled to be released in 2018.

A documentary fused with narrative scenes, this portrait of John Z. DeLorean covers the enigmatic automaker's rise to stardom and shocking fall from grace.

After being promised flying cars for the last 30 years, DeLorean is stepping up to change the game yet again and you won't need roads with this new vehicle. Except there is some competition this time around since Larry Page, Airbus, and Uber are all racing to develop a fully functioning flying car. Paul DeLorean, the nephew of John DeLorean has revealed his plans for a two-seater vehicle called the DeLorean Dr-7 and it doesn't look like the classic DeLorean that we all know and love from Back to the Future, but it sure looks pretty cool. Doc Brown's words at the end of the first Back to the Future movie are finally becoming true.

Wired reports that the new DeLorean Dr-7 flying car will be made of incredibly light materials and will include a special battery that will allow up to 120 miles in a flight, which is more than the...

“We are Ireland. We are inevitable.”

Each summer, while the multiplexes are filled with the big spectacles and epic blockbusters, the little gems that grip us with their humor, their tragedy and their humanity, manage to find their ways into the cinemas. This year it’s The Journey, the gripping account of how two men from opposite sides of the political spectrum came together to change the course of history.

In 2006, amidst the ongoing, decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, representatives from the two warring factions meet for negotiations. In one corner is Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall), the deeply conservative British loyalist; in the other is Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney), a former Irish Republican Army leader who has devoted his life to the cause of Irish reunification. Opposites in every way, the two men at first seem to have little chance of ever finding common ground. But over the course of an impromptu, detour-filled car ride through the Scottish countryside, each begins to see the other less as an enemy, and more as an individual—a breakthrough that promises to at last bring peace to the troubled region.

Driven by two virtuoso central performances, The Journey is a more-relevant-than-ever reminder of how simple humanity can overcome political division. Freddie Highmore, Toby Stephens, Catherine McCormack and John Hurt co-star. (Review)

I recently spoke with the director of The Journey, award winning director Nick Hamm. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Hamm directed cult-classic The Hole (2001), starring Thora Birch and Keira Knightley, in her feature film debut. He also helmed Lionsgate’s thriller Godsend (2004), starring Robert DeNiro, Rebecca Romijn and Greg Kinnear.

Hamm later produced and directed the 80’s U2-centric comedy, Killing Bono (2011) for Paramount Pictures and Northern Ireland Screen, starring Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan and Pete Postelwaite.

During our discussion about his latest movie, the British director and I talked about the film’s mixture of tension and humor, the human story and the message of The Journey.

We Are Movie Geeks: The Journey is a good story that should be told – the type that audiences don’t see anymore. It opened in 2016 in Toronto and then Venice, and finally had its premiere at the Belfast Film Festival in May 2017. What was the crowd’s reaction and how was it received?

Nick Hamm: That was a really extraordinary event. I’ve seen it now with thousands of people watching the movie and if you’re going to see a movie like this, you really need to take it back to Northern Ireland to see what they make of it. In the end, that’s where the authenticity of the film is. It is important to us. The event was attended by nearly a thousand people and political leaders from both sides of the community came so we had politicians from Sinn Féin and politicians from the Democratic Unionist Party (Dup). It was a very emotional and momentous event because in many respects it reminded people of something that they had achieved and had risked losing.

We Are Movie Geeks: It is such an interesting script by writer Colin Bateman, one that is funny, sad, and dramatic. Tell me about lead actors Timothy Spall (Paisley) and Colm Meaney (McGuinness – who died recently in March) and the casting. Their characters became known as ”the Chuckle Brothers”. Both actors were very impressive to watch.

Nick Hamm: What underscores everything is the fact that Colin’s script is so good and when that happens, you attract really good actors. Both Tim and Colm were fantastic partners on the film. Tim had to transform himself – he’s playing a six foot five, Northern Irish politician when in reality he’s a five foot nine London actor. We did some prosthetics on his chin and a little aging on his hair, along with the false teeth. The hair and makeup was done by Polly McKay. Tim became the character of Paisley which was fascinating to watch and he’s one of those actors that totally transforms himself.

Colm is one of Ireland’s best actors. What was important was to find somebody who could give McGuinness sympathy. This is a man whose background is well documented. What do you do? You start by making him human, you give him a life and a backstory. When you put someone like Colm Meany in that role, Colm transforms himself for that. He understands the culture from where that character comes, he understands the basis of that character’s ideology and he understands how that character ticks. If you have that and you are a good actor – which he is, then you have a good combination. It was great to watch him.

We Are Movie Geeks: I was very pleased to see the late John Hurt in the film in what was one of his final roles.

Nick Hamm: We all knew that John was very sick while he was doing the film. When we offered him the movie, he wanted to work until the end and play the part. It was real tribute to have him involved as a part of the film.

We Are Movie Geeks: Irish writer Seamus Heaney, although not a political animal was an artist like yourself. He was affected by “The Troubles” when his cousin Colum was killed as a result of the war – Heaney moved from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland after that. Has it affected you in any way and was this a partial reason why you made the film?

Nick Hamm: It hasn’t affected me personally but I knew people who were. Growing up I was in school in Northern Ireland and I knew people who had real problems. I could see it with my own eyes, the difficulties back then, and it was an intense situation. The vast portion of the people in Northern Ireland went on about their daily life unaffected by it. The real heroes were the people who got on with their daily lives in that situation.

The Journey for me shows how a unique political friendship was achieved at the personal cost of both men. Both men were vilified by their respective communities, but it was one of the most unique political friendships that I had ever witnessed. For two people who were so antagonistic towards each other, who ultimately came to respect each other, and became friends with each other, is why I made the movie and to tell their story.

We Are Movie Geeks: Despite technically being set in Scotland, and on a plane, The Journey was filmed in Northern Ireland. There’s no green screen and it was filmed on the road with your director of photography Greg Gardiner. What was the approach when you took it out of the plane and into the car?

Nick Hamm: This device protected the claustrophobia that the film so demanded while allowing a political version of a road movie to take place. We decided to not be frightened by the tyranny of the car but rather embrace it and enjoy the conceit. Greg and I had discussed and ultimately rejected the idea of green-screen or back-projection very early. We filmed on the road, creating a ‘mobile studio’; our own little cinematic microcosm

We Are Movie Geeks: There is one scene in particular, where McGuiness and Paisley let down their defenses somewhat, set inside a church and then out in the cemetery, that has real depth.

Nick Hamm: I think in the cemetery scene when Colm breaks down, everyone expects Paisley to be sympathetic and wrap his arms around him, but he rebuffs him and shows him no pity or sympathy. Every scene was like a boxing match with each character winning a round.

We Are Movie Geeks: I appreciated the sound editing and especially the score from Stephen Warbeck who first became known for the music for “Prime Suspect” and won an Academy Award for his score for Shakespeare in Love. It is a really nice score.

Nick Hamm: It was something quite new for him and he really had a go at it.

We Are Movie Geeks: Did you speak to the families and to some of the individuals involved? And what was their reaction?

Nick Hamm: I met McGuiness before he died. The whole film came together very quickly from the start.. From the script to the financing, it was out in about two and a half years. It’s been a very quick process and very rare for an independent film. I did sit with McGuiness before we started filming about his friendship with Paisley and it was fascinating to hear him speak how important the relationship was and how important it was that they maintained contact up to its logical conclusion. I did talk to Paisley’s family and to his son. We wanted to reassure them we were not riding roughshod over the history. But at the same time it was important to be creatively independent. We did not share the screenplay with them at any stage. In the end both families really loved the movie.

Plus Sinn Féin and the Dup (Democratic Unionist Party) really liked the film, which is almost unheard of, both parties liking the same thing never mind the same movie. The most important thing for us was that the story was balanced.

We Are Movie Geeks: Brexit is seemingly in the news all the time now. As a result, checkpoints could be set up again to control borders. The timing of the film and its release couldn’t be more relevant. Will it cause a major headache between Northern Ireland and Ireland? Will it hinder Ireland’s reunification?

Nick Hamm: The question needs to be asked and it’s a dreadful situation. The idea that there will be a border back in Ireland again, I don’t think anybody wants that. I know for a fact that the Dup doesn’t want that and it would be suicide for both the economy and the welfare of the people to start putting border checks back up. That border in Ireland runs through people’s fields and farms. It was never designed to be a hard border, which it was during “The Troubles”. It would be an unmitigated tragedy to go back to that.

We Are Movie Geeks: Speaking of Indie Films, what are your thoughts on how people see films? Many are leaving the cinemas in favor of watching a film at home or on the computers with the advent of Netflix and Hulu, etc.

Nick Hamm: I like that at the beginning of a movie’s life that it has a public screening. I think the ways a film is distributed these days is really fascinating. I don’t distinguish between how and where a movie is watched. It’s changing so quickly, in five years-time it’ll change all again. Even the act of going to a movie theater is going to change. As long as they keep putting out these huge blockbuster films, in the cinemas is the best way to watch them. However some films work better on a smaller screen. I think screen size some people can get very worked up about.

We Are Movie Geeks: What’s your next project?

Nick Hamm: We are going to do the DeLorean story, Driven. It’s through the eyes of the guy who gave him up to the FBI. We’re hoping to shoot in September in Puerto Rico. The script is from The Journey’s Colin Bateman. Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace and Timothy Olyphant are in the picture.

Synopsis:

Driven is the turbo-charged story about the FBI sting operation to entrap maverick car designer John DeLorean.

Sudeikis stars as Jim Hoffman, a con artist-turned-informer for the FBI in the war on drugs. Olyphant plays his handler, determined to snare the world-famous but enigmatic DeLorean (Pace) — desperate for cash to finance his dream of designing the ultimate car of the future — in a drug deal that would become the most lurid celebrity scandal of the 1980s.

From IFC Films, see The Journey in theaters now.

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"When this thing gets up to 88 mph, you're gonna see some serious s***". A Santa Clarita man decided to take his 1982 DeLorean Dmc-12 up to 88 mile per hour to see what would happen. Spoiler alert, he didn't go back in time or into the future, instead he was given a speeding ticket.

The DeLorean was first released in 1981 for a mere $25,000 or over $100,000 in today's cash. There were roughly around 9,000 released before the DeLorean hit the skids, and it was only really popular among people who sold drugs or could afford drugs, until it was brought front and center in the classic 1985 movie Back to the Future as a stainless steel time machine that needed to reach 88 miles per hour and use plutonium before Marty McFly could time travel. Thanks to the popularity of the Back to The Future franchise, the DeLorean still holds its value and are relatively sought after.

There's a movie currently in development called Driven, which tells the true story of maverick car designer John DeLorean. It was announced that Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace, and Timothy Olyphant will star in the film. The story of which follows an FBI sting operation that was set up to entrap DeLorean.

According to Deadline, Sudeikis will play Jim Hoffman, "a con artist-turned-informer for the FBI in the war on drugs." Olyphant takes on the role of his handler, "determined to snare the world-famous but enigmatic DeLorean." Pace will play John DeLorean, who is "desperate for cash to finance his dream of designing the ultimate car of the future — in a drug deal that would become the most lurid celebrity scandal of the 1980s."

The story behind DeLorean is a fascinating one, and it should make for a great film, especially with this incredible cast! The movie is being directed by Nick Hamm (The Journey,...

Cannes will be hit with a huge dose of handsome next month, as Deadline reports that Timothy Olyphant, Lee Pace, and Jason Sudeikis are set to star in a movie about the FBI’s real-life sting on car designer John DeLorean. Sudeikis and Olyphant will team up, Catch Me If You Can-style, with the former playing a con-artist-turned-informant who helps Olyphant’s FBI agent get his man. Pace will play the Dmc founder, who, in addition to working on cutting-edge automobile designs, tried to save his failing business by trafficking cocaine. The FBI set up a sting to catch him handling 59 pounds of coke, but the organization’s efforts were just interpreted as entrapment at DeLorean’s trial, and he was found not guilty. The film is set to begin filming in Puerto Rico this September.

The Journey director Nick Hamm will be at the wheel for Driven ...

Keep up with the glitzy awards world with our weekly Awards Roundup column.

– Robert De Niro will receive the Chaplin Award at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 44th Chaplin Award Gala on May 8, 2017. The event will celebrate De Niro’s more than 40-year career in cinema and his championing of independent film through the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute.

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“De Niro has long been such a legendary presence that one can overlook the remarkably fine-tuned craft and quality he has brought to his roles over his multi-decade career,” Lesli Klainberg, Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, said in a statement. “If you watch his performances, from ‘Mean Streets’ and ‘The Godfather Part II’ to ‘Raging Bull’ and ‘Awakenings’ and on to his more recent work...

If you're a diehard "Back to the Future" fan with money to burn, we've got some great news: The DeLorean is going back into production for the first time in more than 30 years.

Stephen Wynne, CEO of the DeLorean Motor Company, announced the plans this week in an interview with the Houston NBC affiliate, near the company's Humble, Texas headquarters. The car, which became famous thanks to its role as the time machine in the "Back to the Future" series, was once synonymous with '80s opulence. But the company went bankrupt in 1982, and since the late '80s has operated purely as a repair and refurbishment outlet, restoring existing models of the vehicle.

The company had been unable to produce new versions of the kitschy car because the design rights were owned by the estate of the vehicle's namesake, the late John DeLorean, and not the company itself. Now,...

Typically car companies try to be innovative, pushing design and technology forward with each year's new model. But nobody wants to see the DeLorean Motor Company make cars that seem like they belong in our time let alone the future. Well, maybe they'd like them to fly and run on garbage, but as far as the appearance of the DeLorean Dmc-12 goes, there's no reason to update the look of the vehicle from its only ever design, from the early 1980s. Founder and namesake John DeLorean actually hated the idea of drastic changes to car models every year anyway, believing them to be just a sales gimmick.  So, when the newly rebooted incarnation of the company gets going on manufacturing all new DeLoreans very soon, they'll still be the same old style made famous by...

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Last year, Universal Pictures celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Back to The Future with a number of different events, including a brief theatrical re-release, a new Blu-ray trilogy and much more. In conjunction with the huge event, Nike announced that the actual self-lacing sneakers from Back to the Future Part II have finally become a reality, while Pepsi announced that fans can buy limited edition bottles of Pepsi Perfect from the sequel. While the 30th Anniversary festivities have come and gone, we have news from Click2Houston that the DeLorean Motor Company (Dmc) will actually start producing new cars that will be available for fans to buy sometime in 2017.

The DeLorean Motor Company was founded in 1975 by former General Motors executive John DeLorean, who was responsible for designing beloved cars such as the Pontiac Firebird and the Pontiac Gto. Dmc only produced one vehicle, the Dmc-12, and only 9,000 were manufactured...

A timely film about EU top dog Hans Tietmeyer, a German economist, is the latest slippery biopic from the Irish artist, whose past subjects include car-making conman John DeLorean

"I'm not putting this accurately, but approximately," explains the apologetically unreliable narrator in Duncan Campbell's latest documentary, Arbeit, hinged around the influential German economist Hans Tietmeyer. The same might be said for all the Irish artist's slippery biopics, which have tackled such fiery characters as Irish republican Bernadette Devlin, who once punched a Tory home secretary in the face for suggesting British soldiers had only fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday, and John DeLorean, the dashing but dastardly entrepreneur behind the eponymous sports car that took Michael J Fox back to the future.

With old newsreels, photography and commercials, Campbell builds contrary tales of people, time and place, in which the picture is forever shifting depending on who is holding the camera.

Following the news earlier this year that the futuristic light cycles from Tron Legacy as well as Marty McFly’s Nike trainers, albeit without self-lacing capability, from Back To The Future Part II have become a reality, Designboom.com are reporting that an all-electric version of the DeLorean will be hitting the streets in 2013.

At an annual DeLorean owners event in Houston, Texas, the DeLorean Motor Company (Dmc) unveiled their latest prototype of the motoring icon immortalised by the Back To The Future movies. The new version follows all the same lines as the original design but is powered completely by a 260 horsepower electric motor that hopefully requires slightly less than 1.21 Gigawatts of power to reach a top speed of 125mph and 0-60 in 4.9 seconds.

The Dmc car manufacturer was formed by John DeLorean in 1975 and only produced one model, the DeLorean Dmc-12 sports car with its distinctive gull wing doors and stainless steel body.

James Toback, whose first produced screenplay was the semi autobiographical 1974 drama The Gambler, has unloaded a fury of annoyance in a rant to Deadline over the weekend about how it would have been the classy thing to do if Paramount Pictures, Martin Scorsese, William Monahan or Leonardo DiCaprio had bothered to give him a call to let him know they were developing a remake.

Not even the original producers Irwin Winkler and Bob Chartoff who are still kicking around and are now working on the remake got in touch with Toback and it was up to his friend Brett Ratner (the director he is currently writing a biopic of James DeLorean for) to let him know the story was all over the internet.

And of course he’s right. Sure Paramount owns the screenplay, they paid for it long ago and can do the hell they want with it but imagine this.

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It’s hard to know where John DeLorean’s stainless steel-bodied Dmc-12 sports car starts and the “Back to the Future” time machine ends since the legacy of both have become inextricably intertwined. Even without Mr. Fusion and the flux capacitor, people refer to the low-slung, six cylinder gull-winged car as the “Back to the Future” car, which is the desired reaction for car collector and “Back to the Future” superfan Desi DosSantos. But he’ll correct anybody...

Under normal circumstances, the anniversary of the beginning of the manufacturing of a car wouldn't be all that big a deal. However, when production of the DeLorean Dmc-12 began on this day in 1981, it ended up having a profound effect on pop culture at large.

Designed by American engineer John DeLorean (who up until then had been most famous for working on a trio of sports and muscle cars for Pontiac), the DeLorean was an incredible automotive creation that was easily identified by its flip-up doors (known as the "gull-wing" style), a rear-mounted engine and a fiberglass-and-steel construction (which ended up making the car ridiculously heavy). The development of the car (which eventually became known simply as the Delorean) cost the mogul $175 million and was partially funded by investments made by the likes of Sammy Davis, Jr. and Johnny Carson. Production was supposed to begin in 1978, but engineering snafus forced...

The rumor that hit yesterday about George Clooney possibly starring in a biopic about car manufacturer John DeLorean always seemed a little fishy, and now we know not to put any faith in it at all-- The Playlist got in touch with Clooney's rep, who told them simply, "He has no involvement. The story is not true. He knows nothing about this." Things only get more confusing when you consider that three are three separate DeLorean biopics in the works right now, one from producer David Tobak, another produced by Brett Ratner, and another put together by DeLorean's children. Clooney was rumored for the Permut project, which also has James Toback on board as a screenwriter and has been around longer than most of the others. It would have been a good sign to get Clooney on board to star, since starpower goes a long way in getting a...

Much like the dueling "Snow White" projects, yet with considerably less heat is three in-the-works dueling biopics of the auto industry’s fallen angel, John DeLorean--the car magnate and creator of the DeLorean vehicle perhaps best remembered for its appearance in "Back to the Future" as the time travel car. One is being led by filmmaker James Toback ("Tyson"), who last we heard was preparing to pen a screenplay about DeLorean with filmmakers Brett Ratner and Robert Evans as producers, another by "Youth In Revolt" producer David Permut, and a third from a relatively fresh team of about half a dozen…...

Biopics are a large part of the Hollywood film scene, and are typically some of the most remembered films come Oscar season. That makes it not very surprising that the biopic of John DeLorean, creator of the Dmc-12 (most well-known for being the time machine in the Back To The Future trilogy), is looking to get a big name actor involved. It seems like they’ve got their pick made with George Clooney, who is reportedly in talks for the role, but will it work out?

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First of all, did it work? Did you almost believe for 1.21 seconds that George Clooney might be Kilmering his career by voicing a car? You did, didn't you? Cool. The real story, a rumor that is flitting around the internets, is that Cloons is in talks to star in and possibly direct a biopic of automotive engineer and executive John DeLorean, best known for developing the DeLorean Dmc-12 sports car (which can be seen at the top of the page. . .not needing any roads).

At first glance this seemed, to me, to be a terrible idea. Clooney is charismatic as hell, sure, but the last car engineering biopic I remember seeing was Tucker: The Man and His Dream with Jeff Bridges and the most exciting part of that 110 minutes was when they discovered seat belts. (Full disclosure, I did not see that movie where Greg Kinnear invents the windshield wiper.

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When Marty McFly hopped into that DeLorean and went back in time to get hit on by his mom, the car became a cinematic icon. As the '80s series found new life on Blu-ray this year, we've seen DeLorean monster trucks, auctions and the car even found itself in the upcoming remake, 'Arthur.'

But it's not just fan-centric fare that's on the rise for the old car. In June, we learned that Brett Ratner was leading a pack of dueling John DeLorean biopics (he, obviously, is the man behind the car). At the time, David Permut's project was well under the Ratner shadow, but if Irish reports are right, a little face time from George Clooney should help to give the Rat a run for his money.

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When Marty McFly hopped into that DeLorean and went back in time to get hit on by his mom, the car became a cinematic icon. As the '80s series found new life on Blu-ray this year, we've seen DeLorean monster trucks, auctions and the car even found itself in the upcoming remake, 'Arthur.'

But it's not just fan-centric fare that's on the rise for the old car. In June, we learned that Brett Ratner was leading a pack of dueling John DeLorean biopics (he, obviously, is the man behind the car). At the time, David Permut's project was well under the Ratner shadow, but if Irish reports are right, a little face time from George Clooney should help to give the Rat a run for his money.

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Thanks to Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale and Back To The Future, the DeLorean will always have a special place in cinema history. But despite it's cool looks and gull-wing doors, the car itself is seen in the eyes of history as an epic disaster that left its creator, John Delorean so desperate to make money that he attempted to try drug trafficking and was arrested (though later released due to entrapment laws. The story of the creator is a fairly interesting one and while three biopics were in the works earlier this year, we haven't heard much about them since. Now one of them may have found its lead actor. Irish Central reports that George Clooney is in talks to take on the role of the infamous car executive. Not to be confused with the project being produced by Brett Ratner or Kathryn DeLorean, Clooney is rumored to be attached...

George Clooney is in talks to play John DeLorean, a General Motors executive who left the company in 1973 to start his own car company in Northern Ireland. DeLorean developed the Pontiac Gto and Firebird while at Gm. He also created the famous DeLorean Dmc-12 gull-wing cars in Northern Ireland, immortalized in the ‘Back to the Future’ Films. There have been three different versions of a biopic about the legendary automotive entrepreneur in the works over the last few years. The front-runner, produced by David Permut, is set to have the Oscar-winning Clooney in the lead role. The film would chronicle DeLorean’s work at Gm to his creation of the Dmc-12, and presumably show his arrest in 1982 for drug trafficking. (He was later found not guilty because the charges were the result of entrapment by federal agents.) Stephen Wynne, the head of DeLorean Motor Company, says Clooney is also his first choice for the role.

London, Dec 12 – George Clooney is all set to play John DeLorean in an upcoming film based on the flamboyant car executive’s life.

The Oscar winner is in talks to star as the man who created the famous Dmc-12 gull-wing cars used in the ‘Back To The Future’ films, reports the Daily Express.

DeLorean, who died in 2005 aged 80, got 100million pounds.