Intense Trailer for Michael Mann's FERRARI Starring Adam Driver
Neon has released a full trailer for director Michael Mann’s Ferrari, and it looks like it tells the intense and dramatic story of Italian sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, who is played by Adam Driver. This film has been a long-time passion project for Mann, and it looks like he’s made a great movie. Mann is a hell of a talented filmmaker, and I've enjoyed the films he’s made over the years. This is going to be a good one.
In the film, “It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers' passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.”
Driver is joined in the film by Penelope Cruz as Ferrari’s wife Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. The movie also stars Patrick Dempsey as fellow race car driver Piero Taruffi, Jack O’Connell as racer Peter Collins, Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian, and Gabriel Leone as driver Alfonso de Portago.
Mann made this film with no ties to the major studios, which he’s proud of, and he said, “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 film was adapted by Mann and the late Troy Kennedy-Martin from Brock Yates’s 1991 biography Enzo Ferrari — The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine. The movie will be released on Christmas 2023. Enjoy the trailer!