Expected in competition at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, let’s find out everything there is to know about the biopic celebrating the life and work of Enzo Ferrari, starring Adam Driver.
Except for the famous Deputy Tokyotelevision series for which Michael Mann was an executive producer and director of the pilot. Heat is a challenge AND Pledge disappeared from the big screen for 8 years. In fact, the cyber-thriller came out in 2015. Black hat starring Chris Hemsworth, an intriguing but slightly dated film, certainly not comparable to the American author’s old cinematic glory. Over the past few years, he’s released Heat 2, the new sequel to his best-known and most-quoted feature film (which should also be his next big-screen project), focusing the rest of his workforce on development. ferrari, a biopic dedicated to the extraordinary life of Enzo Ferrari, the legendary founder of one of the most famous sports and luxury car manufacturers in the world and one of the most important Italian entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. The film will be presented in the world premiere and official competition at the Venice International Film Festival 2023, but at the moment there is very little up-to-date information about the work, which, apart from a few images of the main characters, still lacks a poster and poster. Official Trailer. So let’s try to figure it out all information relating to one of the most anticipated projects of the next film season.
Great protagonist
Every great biopic needs to have a great protagonist. Also ferrari clearly meets this unspoken rule of need and common sense, and in the role of the Engineer we find a talented Adam Driver, one of the most sought-after, versatile and vibrant performers of his generation. Mann’s challenge was originally meant to be taken up by Christian Bale, but after an initial moment where it looked like it was done, the British actor decided to drop the project in 2016 due to issues with a physical transformation that was too risky for him. state of health. However, after five years, the choice finally fell on Driver, both for reasons related to physique du role translator, as well as with an actor’s figure corresponding to the corporate and sporting spirit of Ferrari, who, before founding his team, cut the teeth of a beggar boy in various car workshops and a mechanic, and a test driver, then became a professional driver and only finally a successful entrepreneur. Driver resembles the 60-year-old Ferrari in body and expression, especially in the iconic sunglasses, and it is this role that could mean for the performer the opportunity to receive his third Oscar nomination and a chance to win the coveted gold statuette.
Next to him we also find a large staff of colleagues headed by Penelope Cruz like Laura Ferrari, the engineer’s wife. Together with her Shailene Woodley as Lina Lardi, the illegitimate mistress of Enzo Ferrari (with whom she also had a son), and later Patrick Dempsey with the pilot Piero Taruffi, Jack O’Connell consisting of Peter Collins (another famous Scuderia Ferrari driver) and the Italians Len Musello AND Thomas Basili in matching shoes by designer Sergio Scaglietti and entrepreneur Gianni Agnelli. The cast could be made into a biopic that would chronicle both Ferrari’s personal life and the famed car company’s rise, between successes and hardships, but apparently Michael Mann’s film will be much more than “simple“Biopic after the trial.
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Shakespearean drama
However, it couldn’t be a Michael Mann film without its fitting dark side, and in fact the director decided to build his entire feature film around a specific moment in Ferrari’s life and career. To be precise, it was 1957, the year of the last competition of the 1000 Miglia and the tragic accident involving a Ferrari car that cost the life of racing driver Alfonso de Portago (who was played in the film by Gabriel Leone) and the cause of a lengthy criminal and media trial against Enzo himself. The difficult period in which Ferrari entered the crisis, as well as the marriage with his wife Laura, was affected by the death of their son Dino, who died at the age of 24 due to Duchenne dystrophy, and the recognition of Piero Lardi – later Piero Ferrari – as an illegitimate child. The light and shadows of an entrepreneur facing the deepest abyss of his existence, between the fame of a womanizer, the pain of loss and the risk of a premature end to an entrepreneurial adventure that has already marked the history of Italy in just 10 years of existence. It is the feature film editor, our local Pietro Scalia, who determines ferrari “more than a biopic“, further praising Mann’s work as a director: “The film was shot in and around Modena in the summer of 2022. I had an editing room on site and kept a close eye on the production. I must say that Mann is a very precise person, he writes everything down, and for this reason I received pages of observations and instructions that were not easy to read every day. He has the insane focus and energy of a 20 year old.“.
From the script itself (co-written with Mann himself, along with Troy Kennedy Martinbased on the book Brock Yates), Scalia then accurately specified: “The last draft I was able to read, the final one, is really beautiful and I wouldn’t call Ferrari a biopic. It’s a much more complex and darker film, almost a Shakespearean drama.Meanwhile, waiting to finally get a chance to admire the Ferrari trailer a few weeks before the Venice premiere, the production of the work has reached an agreement with SAG-AFTRA – the United States actors’ union – thus gaining permission to promote the feature film at both the Lido and the New York Film Festival. , where she will be the final title. The reason for this “omission” is due to the fact that Ferrari is manufactured by Neon, an independent house and Hollywood studio with which it is currently an alliance. fighting for better contract terms and supporting the Writers Guild of America strike, a union instead of screenwriters. All this could mean the presence of Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley and Patrick Dempsey at the Venice Film Festival along with Michael Mann, but confirmation will have to wait a few more days.