Starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as Laura Ferrari, the first trailer for Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” has dropped with almost no dialogue. The dramatic montage shows scenes of mounting tension, leading to an invocation that anyone who gets into a Ferrari must be in it to win.
Despite revealing little of the plot, the trailer sets the mood for the film. The synopsis explains that the action of the movie focuses on the year 1957, with the threat of bankruptcy looming over the company that the Ferraris had founded just 10 years earlier.
Matching the uncertainty of their professional life, the couple’s home life has also been battered by the loss of their beloved son Dino, and the discovery of another, born out of wedlock to Enzo’s mistress Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley).
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Against that backdrop, the company decides to run its vehicles at the notorious Mille Miglia road race. Filmed in Brescia, through which the famed event raced, the movie is based on the book “Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine,” which was written by Brock Yates.
Also starring Patrick Dempsey as driver Piero Taruffi, Jack O’Connell as Peter Collins, Sarah Gadon as Linda Christian, and Gabrial Leone as Alfonso de Portago, who [spoilers] tragically blew a tire and crashed, losing his life, and taking those of nine spectators as well.
Ferrari and the tire’s manufacturer were charged with manslaughter following the accident, but the case was eventually dismissed, despite the fact that five children were among the dead. Mann told Variety that he doesn’t plan to shy away from the brutal accident, nor its consequences in the upcoming film, giving Driver’s final line of the trailer meaningful weight.
Set to debut at the Venice Film Festival, Ferrari will hit theaters on December 25.