"RUSH" WOULD NEVER HAVE been made had Niki Lauda not offered his full support, and the triple world champion is delighted with the way the finished film turned out. Indeed, Lauda's positive response to Peter Morgan's original approach encouraged the screenwriter to push the project forward. "It was right at the beginning," says Morgan. "Literally the first step I took was to meet Niki in Ibiza. My wife rang him up for me. He knew that she had married a Hollywood writer, as it were, and he was on holiday and bored, and he came over and gave me three hours that afternoon. By the end of those three hours, I knew that it was a story that I really, really wanted to write, and with Niki's help, I'd be able to do that."
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