Tom Cruise Will GO LIKE HELL with Joseph Kosinski
Via: Variety
Tom Cruise is set to re-team with Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski for a new film called Go Like Hell. The movie is set up at 20th Century Fox, and it's a racing drama that will tell the story of the battle between Ford and Ferrari for dominance in the sports car marketplace.
The film will be based on the book Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and their Battle For Speed and Glory at Le Mans, by A.J. Blaine, which recaps Ford’s challenge to Ferrari with a car designed Carroll Shelby. This is an interesting story that has the potential to be a great film.
This is familiar territory for Cruise, who starred in the 1980s Nascar film, Days of Thunder, but it's new territory for Kosinski who is mostly known for directing big epic sci-fi films like Oblivion and Tron: Legacy. I think this is a great project for him to take on, and should help him put more of a focus on story, characters, and script, which is what the filmmaker needs improvement in. He's already got the visual aspect of everything down.
Here's a more detailed description of the story from the book:
By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort, and Ford didn’t offer what these young drivers wanted. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari lorded over the European racing scene, crafting beautiful, fast sports cars that epitomized style.
Baime tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer named Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game, at the most prestigious and dangerous race in the world, the 24 Hours of LeMans.
Go Like Hell transports readers to a golden era in racing when Ford’s innovative strategy led to victories on the track and renewed respect for the American automobile.