There is a lot of talk about “Ferrari”, the expansive Michael Mann film that will lead to the legendary Enzo Ferrari to the big screen. But a picture is worth a thousand words, and now the biopic is back in the newspapers because they met. the first official photos of his shootingin which Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”, “Annette” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, among others) plays The Commander in one of the darkest moments of his life.
“Ferrari” tells of the difficulties that Enzo Ferrari had to face in the summer of 1957, when he was still he was dealing with the shock of his son Dino’s recent passing, including the crisis of his marriage to Laura Dominica Garello (Penélope Cruz) and her parallel relationship with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), to which was added the storm she had to face so that her company would not go bankrupt just 10 years after its foundation.
In this tumultuous and critical context, Enzo decided to risk everything he had left (material and emotional) in that year’s Mille Miglia, the race throughout Italy that Piero Taruffi (Patrick Dempsey) ended up winning with a car from the house of Maranello. not without another tragedy, such as the death of another Scuderia Ferrari driver, the Spaniard Alfonso de Portago, played by Gabriel Leone – and which may well be regarded as another turning point in his life.
The film, which plans to premiere at the end of 2023is a new opportunity for Driver to put his Italian melody into practice: last year he had already played Maurizio Gucci in “La casa Gucci”, a starring role alongside Lady Gaga in which Al Pacino also participated. and which tells the story of the famous designer, murdered by a hitman in 1995.
And it’s no small challenge for the actor, who is about to turn 39 and will have to play the role of a 60-year-old figure, according to the plot of the biopic. According to the images of him known from the filming, work and magic of Hollywood he is seen transformed into an aged gray-haired man, with a visibly troubled expression, the product of the attacks that Don Enzo was undergoing in those days.
Beyond the cast of the consecrated, the names of the staff behind the camera also have an extensive track record. Starting with Mann himself, creator of “Miami Division” and responsible for films such as “The Last of the Mohicans” (1992), the award-winning “The Informant” (1999), the biopic about Muhammad Ali “Ali” (2001) and “Warranty: Wrong Place and Time” (2004).
In addition, as director of photography alongside him is Erik Messerschmidt, who for his work on the film “Mank” (2020) won the Oscar for best photography. And for the editing he has a figure like Pietro Scalia, also winner of two Academy statuettes thanks to what he did in “JFK” (1991) and “Falcon Fall” (2001).
For the making of “Ferrari”, Mann worked for years on this screenplay based on the book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine”, by Brock Yates. At first, for the lead role he called Christian Bale, but he turned down the offer because he didn’t want to compromise his health again by increasing the weight needed to embody The Commendatore – by the way he had already done so but on the contrary in “Contra the Impossible”, since 2019, when he lost more than 30 pounds to play pilot Ken Miles – and then it was his successor, Hugh Jackman, who stepped off the ship to leave the role to Driver.
Source: Clarin
