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Summary
- Adam Driver takes the lead in the first trailer for Michael Mann’s biopic Ferrari, playing Enzo Ferrari.
- The film follows Enzo Ferrari during a difficult time, with bankruptcy threatening his company and his marriage on the brink after the loss of their son.
- Ferrari is described as a “spectacularly operatic melodrama,” exploring the collision of Enzo Ferrari’s past and future.
The first trailer for renowned director Michael Mann’s upcoming biopic, Ferrari, has now been unveiled, and finds Star Wars and Academy Award nominee Adam Driver in the driving seat as Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, Enzo Ferrari. Coming coutesy of NEON, Ferrari is all set to be released this festive season, and it already expected to be a major favorite come awards season. Check out the first Ferrari trailer below.
“It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis,” the official synopsis for Ferrari reads. “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.”
Directed by Michael Mann and written by Troy Kennedy Martin, Ferrari is based on the 1991 biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine by motorsport journalist Brock Yates, and will explore the life and times of Enzo Ferrari, the Italian founder of the car manufacturer Ferrari.
Leading the cast is Marriage Story and House of Gucci star Adam Driver, with the supporting cast comprised of Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Laura Ferrari, Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars) as Lina Lardi, Gabriel Leone (Dark Days) as Alfonso de Portago, Sarah Gadon (Enemy) as Linda Christian, Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) as Peter Collins, and Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) as Piero Taruffi, as well as Michele Savoia, Erik Haugen, Andrea Dolente, and Giuseppe Bonifati.
Ferrari Is ‘a Spectacularly Operatic Melodrama,’ Declares Michael Mann
Mann, who has not helmed a big screen venture since his 2015 tech-thriller Black Hat starring Chris Hemsworth, has explained what Ferrari is at its core, calling it “a spectacularly operatic melodrama.”
“Everything he’s been collides with what he might become, and the company has gone bust,” Mann recently revealed in a conversation with Variety. “His wife finds out about the other woman. It’s a spectacularly operatic melodrama in real life.”
Ferrari will not shy away from the brutality that can occur on the racetrack, with Mann previously heaping praise on the independent distributor, NEON. “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,” the filmmaker said. “It’s truly appropriate that it is an independent film being distributed by NEON, a very independent distributor.”
Ferrari has now been selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where it is set to premiere on August 31, 2023. The movie is then scheduled to be released in the United States on December 25, 2023, by Neon.
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