Ecclestone blocked plan for 1986 F1 movie
13.09.11
Ecclestone blocked plan for 1986 F1 movie
13/09/2011
David Cronenberg, director of a host of acclaimed films including Crash, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Scanners, Naked Lunch and Videodrome, has revealed that plans for an F1 movie in 1986 were thwarted by Bernie Ecclestone.
The Canadian, speaking after the Venice Film Festival, revealed that he was recruited by Paramount Pictures to make a movie based on F1, the first since John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix in 1966 - assuming you forget Bobby Deerfield in 1977, which is the best thing you can do.
However, such were the demands of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone the idea was scrapped. Sylvester Stallone, who had plans to make a an F1-based movie in the late 90's was left similarly frustrated by Ecclestone.
"I had meetings with Bernie to talk to him about how we might structure a Formula One movie that
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