“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Monk” star Tony Shalhoub is ready to play former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in a six-part tv series depicting the chief’s fall, in accordance to Deadline.
Titled “Fall of the God of Cars,” the series will likely be a dramatization of Ghosn’s life produced by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and Michael Winterbottom, finest identified for the U.Ok. Covid-19 documdrama “This England,” in accordance to the report. Timing for the series’ launch wasn’t talked about.
Ghosn was initially heralded because the savior of Nissan and its alliance companion Renault. In 1996, the Brazilian-Lebanese govt turned Renault right into a worthwhile firm in only one yr, then did the identical at Nissan 5 years later. He additionally oversaw the Renault Nissan alliance’s preliminary push for electrical vehicles, in addition to the 2016 buy of a controlling stake in Mitsubishi.
Ghosn stepped down as CEO of Nissan in 2017, and was arrested in November of the next yr on allegations of financial misconduct, together with underreporting private earnings with monetary regulators and misuse of firm funds whereas working the automaker. After making bail, he was re-arrested the next month on recent expenses.
That’s when the story will get really television-worthy. In 2019, Ghosn fled to Lebanon, reportedly by being smuggled out of Japan in a music instrument case of a band that carried out at a Christmas celebration at his Tokyo residence. At the time, Ghosn mentioned he left Japan to escape “injustice and political persecution” and a “rigged Japanese justice system.”
Ghosn stays keen to voice his opinions. In an almost two-hour interview launched in 2021, he criticized the EV plans of Nissan and different established automakers, whereas evaluating himself to Tesla CEO Elon Musk due to their mutual early help for EVs. Musk in the meantime has a documentary about him arising shortly.
This article was initially printed by Motor Authority, an editorial companion of ClassicCars.com
