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John DeLorean (screenshot from Channel 2)
John DeLorean was a rock star at General Motors. He designed vehicles including the Pontiac GTO, the Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix and Chevrolet Vega. At age 40 he became the youngest division head at the giant car company.
In the 1970s, he left GM to start the DeLorean Motor Company, which manufactured cars at a plant in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. The company eventually found itself in dire financial straights and DeLorean went looking for money.
In October 1982, he was charged with cocaine trafficking in an FBI sting. His attorneys argued that it was entrapment, and in 1984, a federal jury found him not guilty. His company went into bankruptcy.
Married four times, he died from a stroke in 2005 at age 80.
Now, a film titled "Driven" is in the making on the FBI sting operation to entrap him, reports Diana Lodderhose of Deadline Hollywood. It stars Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace and Timothy Olyphant.
Nick Hamm, who directed Venice and Toronto festival hit The Journey, as well as The Hole and Killing Bono, will direct, Deadline Hollywood reports.
Filming is scheduled to begin in September in Puerto Rico.
See 1988 interview below that DeLorean did with Linda Solomon on Detroit's Channel 2.
