The story of Enzo Ferrari is to be told on the big screen with Adam Driver confirmed to play the eponymous automotive godfather.
Ferrari will be released in cinemas later this year and will finally realise a project that director Michael Mann has been playing with since 2000.
It is a much-awaited return for Heat and Collateral director Mann, who has not released a film since Blackhat in 2015.
Thirty-nine-year-old Driver looks aged and stern as the much older Enzo Ferrari in the promo shots which have been released. This will be his second Italian-set biopic after the 2021 epic House of Gucci.
Here is all we know about Ferrari so far.
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Enzo Ferrari will be the subject of the film
Enzo Ferrari lived a colourful life in his 90 years on Earth — from his days as a racing driver to the founder of the motor-racing team that bears his name and subsequent car dealership.
He lived from 1898 to 1988 and was known as Il Commendatore or Il Drake for his imposing manner — as well as his trademark sunglasses and raspy voice.
Ferrari was played by Remo Girone in the 2019 film Le Mans 66.
Ferrari will not focus on Formula 1, but another motor-racing event
Rather than Formula 1, which Ferrari has at points dominated, the focus will be the 1957 Mille Miglia race — a 1,000-mile epic across Italy.
That year was the last edition after Ferrari driver Alfonso de Portago blew a tyre and crashed into a grandstand, killing nine people, including himself.
Ferrari will have a Christmas release date
The biopic will be released on Christmas Day in the US, which means that it will likely come out one day later in the UK, on Boxing Day.
A stellar cast will be in the film
It is not just Driver who will be in the cast, with Sarah Gadon, Penelope Cruz, and Shailene Woodley also attached.
The film will premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
