Enzo Ferrari is topic of recent film and television collection.
Filming of a brand new Hollywood film devoted to the lifetime of Italian motor racing icon and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari is underway in Modena, northern Italy, with a TV collection on the identical topic at the moment in pre-production in Rome.
The movie is being directed by Michael Mann and stars Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as his spouse Laura, with Shailene Woodley enjoying the position of Enzo’s mistress Lina Lardi.
The brand new movie marks a return to Italy for Driver who performed Maurizio Gucci in Ridley Scott’s blockbuster Home of Gucci final 12 months.
Christian Bale was first talked about in lead position for the Ferrari film, then Hugh Jackman was reportedly chosen earlier than ultimately being changed by Driver.
The movie might be set in the summertime of 1957 amid Ferrari’s chapter considerations, his crumbling marriage and the tragedy of shedding his son Dino at 24.
In opposition to this dramatic backdrop, Ferrari made the doomed choice to enter that 12 months’s fateful Mille Miglia automobile race throughout Italy.
The movie has been within the works for the final 20 years and is described by its director as a “ardour mission”.
With a script by the late Troy Kennedy-Martin (who wrote the screenplay for The Italian Job in 1969), the film is impressed by the 1991 e-book Ferrari – The Man, The Vehicles, The Races, The Machine by Brock Yates.
Individually, filming is underway in Rome for an Apple tv drama collection additionally about Enzo Ferrari, written by Steven Knight, the screenwriter behind Peaky Blinders.
The collection, impressed by the biography Ferrari Rex by Luca Dal Monte, might be produced by Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino and directed by Stefano Sollima.
Identified in Italy as “il Drake”, Enzo Ferrari died in 1988 aged 90.
