Teaser Trailer for Director Michael Mann and Adam Driver's FERRARI
Neon has released the first trailer for director Michael Mann’s Ferrari, which has been a long-time passion project for the filmmaker. Mann is a talented director and storyteller who has made some great films over the course of his career and this one will be no exception.
Adam Driver stars in the film as Italian sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, and he’s joined by Penelope Cruz as Ferrari’s wife Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. The movie also stars Patrick Dempsey as fellow race car driver Piero Taruffi, Jack O’Connell as racer Peter Collins, Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian, and Gabriel Leone as driver Alfonso de Portago.
In the film, “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.”
Mann made this film with no ties to the major studios, which he’s proud of, and he said, “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. It’s truly appropriate that it is an independent film being distributed by Neon, a very independent distributor.”
The film was adapted by Mann and the late Troy Kennedy-Martin from Brock Yate’s 1991 biography Enzo Ferrari — The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine. The movie will be released on Christmas. Enjoy the trailer!