Paramount+ has announced the motion picture film Ferrari, directed by the four-time Academy Award®-nominee Michael Mann (HEAT, Last of the Mohicans) will stream exclusively on the service this March.
ÂÂÂTwo-time Academy Award®-nominee Adam Driver (House of Gucci, Star Wars franchise, Marriage Story) stars as the enigmatic Enzo Ferrari opposite Academy Award® winner Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) who plays Laura, Enzo’s wife and Golden Globe-nominee Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Descendants), played by Lina Lardi, Enzo’s lover.
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.
Seminal director and racing aficionado Michael Mann directed Ferrari from a screenplay he wrote with Troy Kennedy Martin, writer of the original The Italian Job, based on Brock Yates’ book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine.
Michael Mann, p.g.a., produced Ferrari through his Moto Pictures alongside P.J. van Sandwijk, p.g.a., Marie Savare, John Lesher, p.g.a., Thomas Hayslip, John Friedberg, Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Gareth West, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher and Laura Rister.
