Adam Driverhas already portrayed the head of the Gucci fashion house on the big screen, and now he’s set to step into the shoes of another iconic Italian businessman in Neon’sFerrari.Ahead of the film’s release this coming December,Entertainment Weeklyhas released a pair of new images from the project, which will see Driver portrayEnzo Ferrari,the troubled head and founder of the luxury car company Ferrari.
The images show off two different scenes from the upcoming film, the firstdepicting Driver as Ferraristanding in front of what appears to be a racing trailer. Given that Ferrari is best known as a racing car brand, the film will depict the titular character’s struggles to enter his team in the 1957 Mille Miglia auto race. The other image from EW appears to show apoint in time during that race, in which a Ferrari roadster can be seen making its way through a crowd of onlookers.
While some may feel that the part of Enzo Ferrari is similar to Driver’s role asMaurizio Gucciin United Artists’House of Gucci,FerraridirectorMichael Manntold EW that this was not the reason he cast Driver. “I met with [Driver] well before I sawHouse of Gucci. There’s a real-world, factual intelligence to Adam,” Mann said. “He’s somebody who, in his own personal history, has lived life. I sense the strength and the artistic integrity coupled with a pretty fierce artistic ambition as an actor. It’s not political or charming, which I like a lot. It’s just there and strong. It felt to me that he would understand Enzo Ferrari.”
‘Ferrari’Will Tell the Story of a Troubled Man
Mann’s film will reportedlytell more about Ferrari’s storythan just the 1957 race.Ferrariwill delve into the personal life of the man responsible for perhaps the world’s most iconic sports car. At the time of the race, Ferrari had just lost his son and was dealing with martial troubles aroundhis wifeLaura Ferrari.Beyond this, the Ferrari brand was nearly bankrupt at this time.
The crux of the film will undoubtedlybe the racing sequences, though, and Mann gave EW some insight into how they came together. “We designed and engineered some very complicated and very effective camera systems, which plugged into the tubular chassis beneath the sheet metal of the cars so that we could actually move cameras all over moving cars going 120 miles an hour,” Mann said. “We didn’t use trickery or CGI or something to generate the speed.Everybody in the cars were going that fast. We built all the cars from scratch.”
Beyond Driver,Ferrarialso starsPenelope Cruz,Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon,Patrick Dempsey,andJack O’Connell.Mann directed from a script byTroy Kennedy Martin.The film comes from Neon and STX and is produced by Mann for his Forward Pass banner alongsideJon Lesher, Lars Sylvest, Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi,andThomas Hayslip.
Ferrariwill be releasedin the United States on Jun 29, 2025.
Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari’s auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
