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Written by Jason Barlow
How did a former high-flying General Motors executive end up building a stainless steel, gullwinged sports car, in war-torn Belfast, only to find himself entrapped by the FBI holding 100kg of cocaine in an LA hotel room? It"s a tale Hollywood would deem ridiculously OTT, which might be why the film biz has toyed endlessly with the subject without ever finding a way to do it justice. Until now. Co-directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce and produced by Tamir Ardon, Framing John DeLorean is also notable for its unusual construction: it"s neither a conventional documentary nor a full-blown fictional account but a hybrid of the two. "I bought my DeLorean in 1997, when I was 17 years old, and I started a website dedicated to the man, the car and the company," Ardon tells TG.com. "I thought the history of the car was as fascinating as the car itself. Once I"d started in film school [Ardon studied at the famed UCLA] I thought about making this film. It took six years on and off to get it done. We knew we didn"t want to do it in a traditional format, and because so many DeLorean film projects had been mooted, we asked ourselves, What would it have looked like if a DeLorean film had actually been made?" Not a traditional re-enactment, but a high-end, cinematic film, with a real Hollywood star. John was larger than life himself, so we couldn"t get some no-name actor to play him."
Date written: 2 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16486
How did a former high-flying General Motors executive end up building a stainless steel, gullwinged sports car, in war-torn Belfast, only to find himself entrapped by the FBI holding 100kg of cocaine in an LA hotel room? It"s a tale Hollywood would deem ridiculously OTT, which might be why the film biz has toyed endlessly with the subject without ever finding a way to do it justice. Until now. Co-directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce and produced by Tamir Ardon, Framing John DeLorean is also notable for its unusual construction: it"s neither a conventional documentary nor a full-blown fictional account but a hybrid of the two. "I bought my DeLorean in 1997, when I was 17 years old, and I started a website dedicated to the man, the car and the company," Ardon tells TG.com. "I thought the history of the car was as fascinating as the car itself. Once I"d started in film school [Ardon studied at the famed UCLA] I thought about making this film. It took six years on and off to get it done. We knew we didn"t want to do it in a traditional format, and because so many DeLorean film projects had been mooted, we asked ourselves, What would it have looked like if a DeLorean film had actually been made?" Not a traditional re-enactment, but a high-end, cinematic film, with a real Hollywood star. John was larger than life himself, so we couldn"t get some no-name actor to play him."
Date written: 2 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16486
