- Verstappen stopped directing films in 1987 and focused on film rights, founding an organization to secure authors' copyrights.
- He began studies at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1961, and released his first movie in 1966, De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt.
- As a boy, Wim Verstappen liked to visit the cinema, the beginning of a boundless love for film. He sees his favorite films several times, taking a camera with him to take pictures of the big screen. He sticks it in a notebook, with the dialogues learned by heart underneath it.
- After the demise of Scorpio Films, Verstappen directed two films based on novels by Simon Vestdijk, Pastorale 1943 (1978) and Het verboden bacchanaal (1981). While the first was a commercial success, drawing an audience of over a million, the second film flopped, as did two later films, De Zwarte Ruiter (1983) and De Ratelrat (1987).
- He was a Dutch film director and producer, television director, and screen writer.
- Among his productions with Pim de la Parra was the 1971 explicit film Blue Movie, which led to the abolition of the Dutch film rating system for adults.
- Verstappen grew up in Curaçao.
- He joined the editorial staff of the film magazine Skoop in 1964, working alongside Nicolai van der Heyde, Gied Jaspars, and Pim de la Parra.
- From 1966 on he directed and produced films with De la Parra, and in 1967 they founded a production company, Scorpio Films, becoming known as 'Pim & Wim'.
- In 1992 he was awarded the Dutch Filmmuseum Award for his contributions to the Dutch film industry, and in 1995 he received a Golden Calf for his body of work.
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