Delorean Story Coming Back To The Future

A star in an unreasonably priced car: The race is on to film the Delorean story

Millions know the name thanks to the Back to the Future movies but few know the story of the man whose moniker will be forever associated with the gull winged car that, although popular with mad scientists, didn’t do great business elsewhere. All of this is about to change however, according to a report in the New York Times.

Hollywood producers Robert Evans and David Permut, are just two of the industry movers and shakers vying for the right to make John Delorean’s story into a movie.

The automotive entrepreneur has a notoriety that industry players are betting will make him rife for the biopic treatment.

Delorean, who died in 2005, rose through the ranks of General Motors before going it alone to manufacture the iconic Eighties vehicle. He took enormous business risks including doing a deal with the Callahan government to make his DM-12’s in Ulster during the height of the troubles and an industrial depression in the region. The loans he took to make his dream of Delorean being a name to rival Ferrari, translated to huge debts when the car itself, more expensive than it’s rivals, failed to sell in sufficient quantities. Finally, a conviction for felony cocaine possession put an end to the car but it secured its status in popular culture when Robert Zemeckis chose its futuristic design as the perfect look for Doc Brown’s homemade time machine.

Read the NYT article here.

Tags: back to the future, biopic, Delorean