Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley Board Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley have joined Michael Mann’s racing film “Ferrari.”The big-budget biopic follows ex-racecar driver and auto manufacturing giant Enzo Ferrari in the summer of 1957.
With his marriage in crisis over the mourning of a son, and the threat of bankruptcy looming over the company he and his wife built 10 years earlier, Ferrari embarks on a bold race — the Mille Miglia, 1,000 miles across Italy.Driver replaces Hugh Jackman, who had initially signed on to play the title character.
Cruz plays Enzo’s wife, Laura Ferrari, and Woodley plays mistress Lina Lardi.STX nabbed worldwide rights to the film. Mann will direct the script written by himself and Troy Kennedy Martin, based on Brock Yates’ book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine.” Mann also produces under his Moto Productions banner alongside P.J.
van Sandwijk and John Lesher, as well as Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher and Gareth West. Niels Juul executive produces. Principal photography will take place in Italy this spring.Michael Mann said in a statement, “Being able to have these wonderfully talented artists, actors Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, bring to life these unique characters on location in Modena and the Emilia-Romagna is a vision fulfilled.”STX chairman Adam Fogelson added, “Ferrari is so much more than a story about a man and his machine.
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