“Framing John DeLorean,” a smart , hook-filled blend of documentary and fictionalized re-enactments, opens with a question: Why haven’t more movies been made about John DeLorean? Because the story of the maverick, egocentric automaker, whose name is practically synonymous with the excesses of the midcentury American car industry, is ready-made for the silver screen. DeLorean, who died in 2005, was an executive at G.M. before breaking with the company in the 1970s to start his own, which created the stainless-steel gull-wing sports car for which he is best known. This movie makes a running joke out of the subsequent drought, with titles introducing film-industry talking heads as, say, “Producer, Yet Another Unmade DeLorean Film.” One interview subject, the actor Alec Baldwin, recalls how he was once contacted by DeLorean himself to discuss a potential biopic.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2019 17:10 UTC