John Z. DeLorean

John Z DeLorean’s extraordinary and doomed attempt to build the sports car of the future in 1980s Northern Ireland is the stuff of legend. A buccaneering American entrepreneur, DeLorean had film star looks, a famous fashion model as a wife, and an enormous ego that drove him to rival the giants of the US car industry.

Genio. Fracasado. Salvador. Mentiroso. John DeLorean era un inconformista que desafió a la industria para crear la DeLorean Motor Company, que estuvo repleto de desastres desde el principio. En un intento por mantener a flote su estilo de vida, se vio envuelto en una operación encubierta del FBI y le pillaron con las manos en la masa, intercambiando millones por el transporte de cocaína. Esta es la verdadera historia de la codicia y la ambición sin fin tras el vehículo que se convertiría en uno de los artículos de culto más grandes de los años ochenta. Alec Baldwin le da vida a DeLorean en estas recreaciones, junto a unas entrevistas con compañeros, empleados, abogados, amigos y familiares que lo conocían mejor, ya que todos intentan descubrir al hombre detrás del automóvil.

Former General Motors high-flyer John DeLorean had a plan to build a stylish European sports car, at a price that would make it attractive to the American market. The site he chose for his state-of-the-art factory was on the outskirts of Belfast, a city best-known for sectarian violence and high levels of unemployment. The unexpected marriage of high-tech glamour with the gritty reality of 1970s Northern Ireland captured the public's imagination but this early optimism would end in failure. Although the cars looked great, the windows leaked and the engines seized; as his financial problems mounted the maverick DeLorean faced charges of drugs trafficking. Adrian Dunbar narrates the story.

In 1973, John DeLorean was most likely going to be the next president of General Motors, when he turned his back on his $650,000 a year job and focused on a grander dream... to build his own car company (the first new American car company since 1925). In 1978, DeLorean built the most advanced auto factory in the world in under 18 months, from the ground up in a small suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.