Ferrari splitting ex-Gizmondo exec Stefan Eriksson's tale optioned for a movie

At last, former Gizmondo head honcho Bo Stefan Eriksson's story is finally going to be told on film -- or rather, the one told in Wired will be. Writer-director Craig Zobel and producer Beau Flynn have optioned the rights to create a movie based on the publication's October 2006 article "Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up" by Randall Sullivan, which chronicles the build up to his infamous car crash. Flynn's production company Contrafilm will be backing the project, and should the movie actually make it to theaters and be successful, we suspect there'll be plenty of material for a sequel.

[Via Gizmodo]

Read - Film optioned
Read - Original Wired article

[Al2x Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:33PM]

Maybe I can expect this movie to be a low-budget 1 hour movie on G4, never would this be popular enough to pitch for a Hollywood title.

[ajeezy Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:58PM]

I would hope so, that way they won't destroy an Enzo for the sake of a movie like they do with so many other priceless cars...

[CheesusCrust Posted Apr 30th 2009 10:15PM]

Why do you care about a care you will never own?

[ajeezy Posted Apr 30th 2009 11:42PM]

It gives me a better chance at seeing one in person considering I call Fort Lauderdale home and live around the corner from a pretty big Ferrari dealership. And why not? I could hit the $77 million jackpot this weekend and say HA FUCK YOU I GOT ONE NOW

[Benson Posted May 1st 2009 3:00AM]

No need to win the lottery -- you can say that right now.

Being rich and/or actually owning the car in question won't make you sound any more intelligent when saying it.

[Mushrooshi Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:37PM]

The deletion of the Z made it the same length as Gizmodo, therefore...

[Solipsism Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:57PM]

The link and title are still wrong even though they fixed the title.

[Solipsism Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:58PM]

they fixed the h2 title that is, not the actual title tag.

[conscious Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:40PM]

At least he didn't say Gizmodo

[yopladas Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:45PM]

The z for ripped out by that pole in that car crash. That's why the ferrari he crashed is called an Eno

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2009 10:04PM]

Took three readings to make sense of that headline. I couldn't figure out why the Ferrari corporation would want to split Stefan Eriksson's movie option. Hyphens are your friend.

[ajeezy Posted Apr 30th 2009 10:26PM]

Yea it took me a sec to get that too

[JoseElMaton Posted Apr 30th 2009 10:44PM]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/09/gizmondo-chief-finally-arrested-for-being-too-shady/

[Solipsism Posted Apr 30th 2009 11:14PM]

Holy shit: http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/09/gizmondo-chief-finally-arrested-for-being-too-shady/comments/1383498/

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2009 12:23AM]

goddamn, upvoted him

[hunter306 Posted Apr 30th 2009 11:29PM]

I'd totally check out the movie. Probably better than most of the crap out there right now...

[brucehappy Posted May 1st 2009 1:41AM]

Where are those comic panels from? It looks like Jae Lee's work.

[gerbick Posted May 1st 2009 1:49AM]

I bet Uwe Boll will be the director.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2009 1:50AM]

Oh good. I was worried the idiot who crashed the car wouldn't benefit from his own stupidity.

[SeanG Posted May 1st 2009 3:11AM]

\o/
I hope my cake will be in it!