The story of Ferrari has been a Hollywood favorite for decades Four years after the "Ford v Ferrari" blockbuster, here comes another one that focuses on motor racing as far as Ferrari is involved. Neon debuted the first trailer of Michael Mann's new movie, the first in eight years after the Blackhat cyber thriller flop. And it comes with a star-studded cast.
"Ferrari" is the story of the crisis racecar-driver-turned-engineer Enzo Ferrari went through in the summer of 1957. The factory that he built from scratch, together with his wife, Laura, is inching closer to bankruptcy. They have lost their son, Dino, who was meant to take over the family business, a year earlier. The Ferrari drivers are ever more ambitious, chasing victory after victory, yet ever more demanding. A win in the 1,000-mile race Mille Miglia is their target. And Enzo can't have it any other way.
"If you get into one of my cars, you get in to win," gray-haired Enzo Ferrari, in his 60s, tells one of his drivers. And those are the only words we get to hear through a bedazzling trailer, which anticipates the adrenaline provided by the motion picture filled with fast-paced driving and family scenes, as the noise of the engines seems to drown out the tragedy of the Ferrari founder's life.
The 90-second trailer debuts with Enzo Ferrari standing by the racetrack, watching racing cars, in his impeccable three-piece suit.
Adam Driver, who played Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci, now plays Enzo Ferrari in the 2023 biopic. To look like the aging Italian mogul, Driver wore a wig and prosthetics. Meanwhile, Penelope Cruz plays his wife, Laura, and Shailene Woodley is his mistress, Lina Lardi. Actor and race-car driver Patrick Dempsey stars in the movie as racing driver Piero Taruffi.
Based on the book "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine by Brock Yates," this is the second movie in the last four years that brings Enzo Ferrari to the big screen. In "Ford v Ferrari" from 2019, Enzo was played by Italian actor Remo Girone.
This time, Michael Mann has used his magic wand to shape up the movie. Oscar nominee Mann is known for films like Heat, starring Al Pacino and Robert de Niro back in 1995, and The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Yet this motion picture marks Mann’s first time directing a movie since 2015’s cyber thriller Blackhat, which starred Chris Hemsworth. Mann has been trying to make a movie about Ferrari for years, and he reportedly even used Oscar-winning film "Ford v Ferrari" as information source about the 1966 Le Mans race.
The much-anticipated “Ferrari” will hit theaters on Christmas Day, after debuting at the Venice International Film Festival this weekend.
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