There’s only one line of dialogue uttered in the first teaser trailer for Michael Mann’s Ferrari. Following shots of cars racing, snippets of angry people, and a fiery crash, Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari declares, “If you get into one of my cars, you get in to win.”
Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gordon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, and Patrick Dempsey also star in director Michael Mann’s much-anticipated examination of Enzo Ferrari’s life.
Neon released this updated synopsis:
“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 (Cruz) 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 (Woodley).
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.”
In an interview with Variety, Michael Mann confirmed the film takes place over three pivotal months in Enzo Ferrari’s life. “Everything he’s been collides with what he might become, and the company has gone bust,” offered Mann. “His wife finds out about the other woman. It’s a spectacularly operatic melodrama in real life.”
Troy Kennedy Martin adapted Brock Yates’ Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine. Producers include Michael Mann, P.J. van Sandwijk, Marie Savare, John Lesher, Thomas Hayslip, John Friedberg, and Laura Rister. Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Gareth West, Lars Sylvest, and Thorsten Schumacher also serve as producers.
Ferrari will premiere at the Venice Film Festival and is slated to be the Closing Night film at the New York Film Festival. Following its festival run, Ferrari will race into theaters on December 25th.
