Just received an Oscar nomination for Pedro Almodovar’s film. Parallel mothersPenelope Cruz shows no signs of slowing down – rather, she’s accelerating. Next, the actor will play the role of Laura Ferrari, the wife of racing driver Enzo Ferrari, with whom she created the luxury sports car company of the same name. Playing a famous, charismatic and demanding tycoon? None other than Oscar nominee Adam Driver.
The good news doesn’t stop there: in the director’s chair is Michael Mann, who has helmed everything from The Last of the Mohicans And Heat To Insider And Pledge. He wrote the script based on the book by Brock Yates. Enzo Ferrari: Man and Machinenear Italian workTroy Kennedy Martin. Titled FerrariThe film is described as a big-budget biopic set in the summer of 1957 that will follow the couple during a tumultuous period in their lives. Their marriage is in crisis due to the death of their only son, Dino, who was being groomed as Enzo’s successor, and their ten-year-old empire faces bankruptcy. At this crucial moment, Enzo and his team of racing drivers decide to compensate for their losses by taking part in a historic race: the Mille Miglia, which will take them 1,000 miles across Italy.
Shailene Woodley joins Cruise and Driver as Lina Lardi, Enzo’s lover and mother of his second son Pierrot, who would later become vice chairman of the company. Also supporting are Gabriel Leone as Spanish racing driver Alfonso de Portago; Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian, the actress with whom he was spotted at the Mille Miglia; Jack O’Connell as British racing driver Peter Collins; and Patrick Dempsey as Italian rival Piero Taruffi. The first teaser, released on August 30, features fast cars, simmering family tensions, passionate reconciliations and epic arguments, as well as a sample of Driver’s Italian accent. When was the last time we heard this? House of Gucci Certainly.