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The Man and the Machine’ Will Be a Motion Picture

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Michael Mann’s upcoming Ferrari movie is of particular interest in the Car and Driver offices. That’s in part because, well, Ferraris, but even more so because it’s based on the book Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine by a longtime C/D editor, the late Brock Yates.

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Brock published his book in 1991 and had plans to bring it to the big screen. But like exotic sports cars, movies can be hard to get off the drawing board. No screenwriting newbie, Brock already had financial (if not critical) success with 1981’s Cannonball Run. He drew the interest of A-list directors Mann and Sydney Pollack, as well as Andre Morgan, who’d produced Cannonball Run. Perhaps less fortunately, Ferrari also had the interest of Cecchi Gori Pictures, an Italian production company that ended up filing for bankruptcy and seeing its head producer sent to prison for fraud.

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Adam Driver as Il Commendatore in Ferrari.

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The project went into limbo until 2014, when Brock’s wife received a phone call asking whether they’d be interested in reactivating it. Brock was already suffering from Alzheimer’s, so Lady Pamela, as Brock often called her, gave the go-ahead in his stead. Mann had held on to the script, which focuses on 1957, a year of turmoil in Ferrari’s personal and professional life, as his marriage collapsed and his factory faced bankruptcy. Perhaps it’s appropriate that such a tumultuous story have an equally tangled path to the screen.

Production is running full throttle now. Filming began in Ferrari’s hometown of Modena in 2022, with the goal of a release date this year. In the role of Enzo is Adam Driver, perhaps wishing to make use of the Italian accent he honed in House of Gucci. Penélope Cruz plays Enzo’s wife, Laura, while Shailene Woodley portrays longtime mistress Lina Lardi. For track scenes, real-life racing driver Patrick Dempsey won’t have to dig hard to play Ferrari driver Piero Taruffi. Brock didn’t live to see his vision of Enzo on the screen, but he always knew it would make a helluva movie.

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