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‘Ferrari’ Teaser Trailer: Michael Mann & Adam Driver Explore The Iconic Enzo Ferrari In New Drama Coming This December

American filmmaker Michael Mann is behind some of the most thrilling action and dramatic pieces of cinema from his film “Manhunter” introducing the world to Hannibal Lector years before “Silence of The Lambs” to the crime masterpiece “Heat,” the director seemingly has a sixth sense about what it takes to put extremely cool elements and imagery onto the big screen. Mann returns this year with “Ferrari” a film that explores the life of Formula 1 driver and car magnate, Enzo Ferrari, played by the dashing and aptly named Adam Driver (A role originally meant for Aussie actor Hugh Jackman).

A new first-look trailer (See below) has been released online and we now have a better idea of what to expect from the biopic, which will seemingly mix the elements of the thrill of racing alongside the equally dramatic home life of Ferrari. Joining Driver on the call sheet includes Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gordon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, and Patrick Dempsey.

The film also boasts Oscar-winning cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, who also worked on another film that will be screening at the Venice Film Festival with David Fincher’s assassin thriller “The Killer.”

NEON, the film’s distributor, has released the following synopsis for “Ferarri”:

It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.

While the film makes its debut at the Venice Film Festival, a fitting tribute to the Italian subject/setting, audiences will have to wait a bit longer to experience “Ferrari” for themselves as it will be released in theaters on Christmas.

You can watch the aforementioned trailer below.

SOURCE: NEON

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Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Speeding Forward With Hugh Jackman Playing Enzo Ferrari

Reporting out of the Cannes Virtual Market via Deadline has revealed that Michael Mann’s upcoming film Ferrari is now seeking distribution partners next week.

They’re also expected to begin shooting Ferrari by next spring.

The film will chart the summer of 1957 when all the forces in Ferrari’s life – which were often as combustible and volatile as the iconic race cars he built – collided. The now legendary car company he and his wife Laura built was at the time going broke. Their tempestuous marriage had already suffered the death of their son, Dino, and Ferrari’s other son, 12-year old Piero, the product of a wartime romance, was struggling to find his place in the world.

The entrepreneur rolled the dice for all their futures on one race – 1,000 miles across Italy, the brutal and infamous 1957 Mille Miglia. The film will be framed so that during the highly dangerous race, Laura discovers long kept secrets, we see opportunities rise and fade, and drivers, who are like surrogate sons, are pushed beyond the edge.

X-Men actor Hugh Jackman is currently in discussions to play the Enzo Ferrari role, but there isn’t word about who will play Laura.

They also reveal that Mann has reworked the script that was originally penned by Italian Job and Kelly’s Heroes screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, who passed in 2009. Michael has been trying to get the film made for almost two decades.

Ferrari’s resurgence certainly comes at the right time after James Mangold’s own racing biopic Ford v Ferrari from 2019 did okay at the box office and earned a handful of Oscar nominations including Best Picture. I’m sure both Mann and Jackman see the film as potential awards contender.

STX will distribute Ferrari in the UK and Ireland.

STX is now handling international sales and will directly distribute the film in the UK and Ireland. We understand Amazon is tying up a deal to bolster international with STX and has been integral in the process. CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and is repping domestic.

Mann was in the middle of shooting the pilot episode of HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice in Japan before the Coronavirus pandemic paused filming. Hugh Jackman most recently starred in the HBO film Bad Education and had wrapped on the Warner Bros. sci-fi thriller Reminiscence directed by Westworld’s Lisa Joy.

SOURCE: DEADLINE