Colin Bateman says he is "shocked" that 'Driven', his film about John DeLorean, will not be given a cinema release in Northern Ireland.
Award winning author Bateman, from Bangor, Co Down, said: "It'll be out on some screens in England and available as a digital download everywhere from November 8, but no big screens here in the country where the DeLorean was built.
"Some of you will be aware that I hosted a few private screenings last weekend to help get the word out, and the reaction was so incredible.
"All the tickets went in a couple of hours. So this this has kind of thrown me.
"Now, I'm an old hand at the movie business and I know how impossible it is right now - if there's not a superhero in it or a fantasy element it's hard to get anything in the local Omniplex and everything is migrating to Netflix or one of the other streamers, so it will be seen.
"But we're not even getting into somewhere like the QFT in Belfast. Ah well, on to the next one..."
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