Carlos Ghosn’s life took a dramatic Hollywood thriller-style twist last week when it was revealed he had escaped bail in Japan, allegedly inside a bass musical case, and was now a fugitive in Lebanon, but an American media report claim he had already been in contact with an Oscar-winning film director about turning his life story into a movie.
The French-Lebanese former Nissan and Renault boss was under house arrest in Japan since April last year in relation to allegations of financial misconduct but escaped the country and arrived in Beirut last Monday.
A US report has claimed Ghosn had already started to consider turning his life story into a Hollywood blockbuster and had a meeting at his home in Tokyo, where he was under 24 hour surveillance, with John Lesher, the director of the Oscar-winning movie Birdman.
Ghosn described to Lesher “what he sees as his unjust imprisonment by Japanese officials and his struggle to prove his innocence, said people familiar with the discussions,” sources told The New York Times.
The talks, which allegedly took place in December, were only preliminary, the report added, but Ghosn’s latest international escape will surely help generate interest in his story.
French newspaper Le Monde had also claimed that Ghosn had struck a deal with American video streaming giant Netflix to document his story, but a Netflix spokesperson denied this in a report by Business Insider.
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