{"id":12078,"date":"2011-04-29T06:57:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2011-04-29T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:57:50","slug":"british-film-writer-working-on-lauda-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/british-film-writer-working-on-lauda-script\/","title":{"rendered":"British film writer working on Lauda script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British film writer is working on a script to immortalise the most famous season in F1 great Niki Lauda&#8217;s successful career.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-nominated Peter Morgan, best known for writing The Queen and Frost\/Nixon, is focusing on the 1976 season, when Lauda almost burned to death in a fiery crash but returned six weeks later to battle James Hunt for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The typically-blunt Lauda joked to Vienna radio Oe3 that he is giving some thought to which actor might depict him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who is 25 or 26 with his right ear burnt off and dreams to be made up to look like me can start making plans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>DPA news agency said Morgan, who is being actively supported by 62-year-old Lauda, is seeking a producer and director for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Lauda won 25 grands prix and three world championships and is also famous for his airline businesses.<\/p>\n<p>He is still a regular in the F1 paddock, appearing as a pundit for German television.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British film writer is working on a script to immortalise the most famous season in F1 great Niki Lauda&#8217;s successful career. The Oscar-nominated Peter Morgan, best known for writing The Queen and Frost\/Nixon, is focusing on the 1976 season, when Lauda almost burned to death in a fiery crash but returned six weeks later &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,598,3034],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12079,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}