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‘Ferrari’ Trailer: Adam Driver Speeds Through Italy in Michael Mann’s Drama

Sophia Scorziello Aug 30, 2023 6:10am PT

Adam Driver is nearly unrecognizable in the first trailer for Michael Mann’s upcoming drama “Ferrari,” where he suits up to play Italian sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari. Driver stars alongside Penelope Cruz as Ferrari’s wife Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. “Ferrari” will premiere at Venice Film Festival this year and is distributed by Neon in the U.S.

Also starring in the film is Patrick Dempsey as fellow racecar driver Piero Taruffi, Jack O’Connell as racer Peter Collins, Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian and Gabriel Leone as driver Alfonso de Portago.

“Ferrari” is set in 1957, prior to the infamous Mille Miglia race during which de Portago’s Ferrari racecar blew a tire and he and nine spectators died in a crash. Ferrari himself and the tire manufacturer were charged with manslaughter, but the case was later dismissed.

Most of the film was shot in Brescia, Italy, where the real Mille Miglia race took place.

As the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes rage on, Mann is proud that his film has no ties to the major studios. The director told Variety in an August cover story, “The origins of the movie and the content of the screenplay and the movie that you saw do not fit into the kind of film that would be embraced by the conventional studio system. It’s truly appropriate that it is an independent film being distributed by Neon, a very independent distributor.”

The “Ferrari” screenplay was adapted by Mann and the late Troy Kennedy-Martin from Brock Yate’s 1991 biography “Enzo Ferrari — The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine.”

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
A side note, since some of these folks are probably part of the actors strike, I'd question the release date.
On the other hand, this may fall between the cracks, as outlined in the article below. When is a strike not a strike? If it is going forward on schedule, this may actually be good news for the film as it reduces the competition.
Not that I really care about the actors strike otherwise.

https://apnews.com/article/act...ce7237c11d557e933477

Hope it tells the real story and doesn't just end up with good special effects of cars crashing and bursting into balls of fire, like most Hollywood car racing films.

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Originally posted by kho:
Patrick Dempsey, probably best known from Gray's Anatomy, is in real life an accomplished race car driver. I met him once, briefly, at Homestead Motor Speedway, in the pit area between races. He seemed like a very nice down to earth guy.