Writer and producer of the BAFTA award winning documentary ‘Senna’, Manish Pandey, has been given exclusive rights by Bernie Ecclestone to make an eight-part docu-series titled ‘Lucky!’.
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone who arguably built the sport, has given Pandey’s company Jiva Maya permission to produce an eight episode documentary all about Ecclestone and how he built the FIA Formula One World Championship. The series will include unprecedented archive straight from Formula 1 Management. The series’ worldwide sales will be represented by ICM.
Ecclestone who is now ninety years-old, has been filmed extensively at his home in Gstaad during the Covid-19 lockdown, where he shared both his and Formula 1’s life story from birth. Pandey was left completely in awe of Ecclestone.
“Bernie has been able to reflect, not just on his days as one of the greatest sporting impresarios of all time, but also on his life. In his 90 years, he has travelled the world and met everyone who is anyone, yet he remains incredibly personable and immensely funny. It is a joy to tell his extraordinary story, in full, for the first time”
Pandey and Ecclestone clearly have a strong relationship, with the supremo having never shared his full story before.