Adam Driver, Michael Mann Film ‘Ferrari’ Wraps Filming in Italy
Michael Mann, 79, is coming back to the big screen and bringing a stellar cast with him. This is Ferrari, starring Adam Driver in the title role of Enzo Ferrari.
The movie, according to World of Reel, has now wrapped filming and is on schedule to hit a late 2023 release. This is a long-time passion project of Mann’s, who hasn’t directed a feature film since 2015’s Blackhat. The Heat director helmed the first episode of HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice earlier this year. Principal photography began earlier this summer in Italy.
Here is the official logline for the film:
“‘Ferrari’ is set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing 10 years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another. He decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race – 1,000 miles across Italy, the iconic Mille Miglia.”
In addition to Driver, the ensemble includes Penélope Cruz as Ferrari’s wife Laura Ferrari; Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi; Patrick Dempsey as fellow racecar driver Piero Taruffi; Jack O’Connell as racer Peter Collins; Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian and Gabriel Leone as charismatic driver Alfonso De Portago.
Adam Driver is no stranger to playing an iconic Italian, after portraying Maurizio Gucci in last year’s House of Gucci, alongside Lady Gaga. The actor can next be seen in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, which drops on Netflix on December 30. Last year, he wrapped filming 65, a mid-budget dinosaur movie by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods that will be released in 2023. Next, he’s scheduled to begin filming Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis this fall.
Michael Mann made the headlines earlier this year while promoting his book Heat 2: A Novel, the written continuation of the iconic 1995 film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, when he said that the film adaptation was in the works. It’s unknown if the director, who will turn 80 next February, will live up to that promise.
Ferrari will hit theaters at some point in the fall of 2023.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
