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Hollywood Swoops in on VW Diesel Fiasco
Motion picture studio Paramount Pictures has acquired movie rights to a planned book about Volkswagen AG's diesel emission cheating scandal.
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Motion picture studio Paramount Pictures has acquired movie rights to a planned book about Volkswagen AG's diesel emission cheating scandal. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way company and executive producer Jennifer Davisson have signed on to produce the film.
The untitled book being written by New York Times reporter Jack Ewing is expected to focus on a corporate culture at VW that strained the company's technical capabilities with incessant demands for quick and spectacular engineering results. The would-be movie has not yet been cast.
Observers speculate technical difficulties in 2007 with the emission control system for VW's then-new "E 189" diesel engine family resulted in the use of secret software to cheat on U.S. emission tests. VW says the same software is aboard 482,000 diesels in the U.S., 8 million in Europe and 2.5 million elsewhere.
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