Michael Mann's FERRARI Film Project Casts Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, and Shailene Woodley

Director Michael Mann (Heat, The Last of the Mohicans) is pushing forward on the development of his passion project, Ferrari. He just landed a deal with STX Films, and he’s cast the film.

Ferrari will star Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, and Shailene Woodley in the big-budget biopic of racing mogul Enzo Ferrari. Driver will replace Hugh Jackman in the role of Enzo, Cruz will play Enzo’s wife Laura, and Woodley will play his mistress Lina Lardi.

Mann has been working on getting this film made for over two decades. The story “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 ten 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.”

Mann will direct from a script that he wrote with Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job). The film is based on Brock Yates’ book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine.

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.”

Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STXfilms Motion Picture Group commented: “Ferrari is so much more than a story about a man and his machine. It is an extraordinary and emotional story that Michael has been developing for years and the entire team at STX is looking forward to the start of production with this dream cast and filmmaker. Adam Driver is one of the most talented and fascinating actors working today, and we could not be more thrilled to pair him with Penélope, whose legendary career builds with every role she takes.”

Mann is gearing up to start production in May in Italy.