Ferrari
Cinema Release | December
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.
That’s some solid character acting by both Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz there. This is director Michael Mann’s long held passion project. He’s been trying to make it for over 20 years. The screenplay was written by Troy Martin who passed away in 2009 already. Robert de Niro, Christian Bale, and Hugh Jackman were all cast in the lead role at various stages before Adam Driver.