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Petrolheads across the world, unite! Brothers Tony and Ridley Scott are working together to fulfil your small screen motoring dreams.
The directors - who between them have knocked out Alien, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, American Gangster et al - have bought the rights to Wallace Wyss' book ‘Shelby: The Man, The Cars, The Legend', which is a warts-n-all tale on drivers from across the globe who competed in Le Mans throughout the 50s and 60s.
In a statement, Ridley Scott said: "I grew up in the north of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
"This is a hugely ambitious project and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tell the story of these iconic and legendary men who risked everything to win at Le Mans. It's an epic story of courage and ambition and a history of racing which has never been told on such a grand scale," he added.
It's Mad Men with added testosterone and oversteer - you want to watch this. To paraphrase Maverick, ‘we feel the need, the need, for speed'. And so forth.
On paper at least, the second-best motoring television show. You should already know the best. It's won a few awards and everything...
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samey.umako commented on this article
at 02:09 pm on 28 January 2011
Grease and long hair, looking forward to that!
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dearg commented on this article
at 05:06 pm on 28 January 2011
A book about Shelby and a series about Le Mans. Why waste money buying a book about Shelby, good prose? Since they respect him so much (understandably) buy a book on Moss for crying out loud!
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Mr._Nice commented on this article
at 09:12 pm on 28 January 2011
dearg, Carroll Shelby is one of the drivers who drove the Aston Martin DBR1 to victory at Le Mans in 1959.
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hondansx commented on this article
at 12:01 pm on 29 January 2011
hmm should be interesting, cnt wait.
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Mariani commented on this article
at 04:12 pm on 29 January 2011
"which has never been told on such a grand scale" I'm assuming, therefore, that it'll be bigger than 'Le Mans' ('71) You know? Of curse you do! Steve McQueen and all. That's not only the biggest 'thing' about le mans that I know, it is also the only proper one. Maybe is the only one... I can't recall about any other, come to think of it.
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