“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Monk” star Tony Shalhoub is set to play previous Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in a 6-component tv sequence depicting the executive’s slide, in accordance to Deadline.
Titled “Slide of the God of Vehicles,” the series will be a dramatization of Ghosn’s lifestyle manufactured by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and Michael Winterbottom, best recognised for the U.K. Covid-19 documdrama “This England,” in accordance to the report. Timing for the series’ launch wasn’t mentioned.
Ghosn was at first heralded as the savior of Nissan and its alliance husband or wife Renault. In 1996, the Brazilian-Lebanese govt turned Renault into a worthwhile business in just a person year, then did the very same at Nissan five several years later on. He also oversaw the Renault Nissan alliance’s preliminary thrust for electric powered cars, as properly as the 2016 acquire of a controlling stake in Mitsubishi.
Ghosn stepped down as CEO of Nissan in 2017, and was arrested in November of the next calendar year on allegations of monetary misconduct, which include underreporting particular money with financial regulators and misuse of corporation cash when managing the automaker. Right after earning bail, he was re-arrested the following thirty day period on refreshing prices.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, introducing the 2015 Nissan GT-R NISMO prior to the 2013 Tokyo Motor Exhibit
Which is when the story receives truly television-deserving. In 2019, Ghosn fled to Lebanon, reportedly by staying smuggled out of Japan in a music instrument case of a band that executed at a Xmas celebration at his Tokyo residence. At the time, Ghosn said he still left Japan to escape “injustice and political persecution” and a “rigged Japanese justice method.”
Ghosn stays eager to voice his viewpoints. In a nearly two-hour interview launched in 2021, he criticized the EV options of Nissan and other established automakers, when evaluating himself to Tesla CEO Elon Musk mainly because of their mutual early assist for EVs. Musk meanwhile has a documentary about him coming up soon.