George Clooney To Star In DELOREAN Biopic?

Back in the spring of 2009, it was reported that producers David Permut and Steve Lee Jones are going to bring John Zachary DeLorean back to life,.. on the big screen that is.. in a biopic about the rise and fall of the car maverick who developed the Pontiac GTO and Firebird, and the creation of his own company and the DeLorean DMC-12 car, the one that Dr. Brown drives through time to save Marty McFly in all three BTTF installments. Irish Central reported that George Clooney is in talk to play John DeLorean…

The biopic will also include DeLorean’s tough times, his high profile 1982 arrest on charges of drug trafficking in an apparent attempt to raise funds for his struggling company, which declared bankruptcy that same year. He successfully defended himself, showing that his alleged involvement was a result of government entrapment.

Remember.. this isn’t the only DeLorean biopic in development. Brett Ratner and screenwriter James Toback and producer Robert Evans are developing one. the director of HBO and BBC miniseries House of Sadam, Alex Holms is also making one, the producers are collaborating with DeLorean’s son Zachary DeLorean, the executor of the DeLorean estate
Holmes developed the script with co-writer Rob Warr.