Sarah Gadon, Jack O’Connell and Patrick Dempsey Join the Cast of Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’

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Sarah Gadon, Jack O’Connell and a Patrick Dempsey fresh out of Season 2 of ‘devils’ have joined the cast of the film about Enzo Ferrari that Michael Mann will finally be able to make concrete this year after a lifetime behind the project. The three join a previously confirmed cast of Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari, Penlope Cruz as his wife Laura, and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. For his part, O’Connell will play the pilot Peter Collins, Dempsey will play the pilot Piero Taruffi and Gadon will play the actress Linda Christian. The film, based on the non-fiction book by Brock Yates ‘Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine’, begin filming this August on locations in Italy and take place in the summer of 1957. Former car driver Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy looms over the company he and his wife Laura built from scratch ten years earlier. His tempestuous marriage is torn between mourning for one son and acknowledging another. It is then that they will decide to offset their losses by betting on a race: the emblematic “Mille Miglia”. Mann will direct the film from a script written at the time by Troy Kennedy Martin (‘The Italian Job’), who died in 2009, and which the filmmaker himself has subsequently revised. Mann will also serve as producer of the film through his Moto Productions alongside PJ van Sandwijk, John Lesher, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher and Gareth West while STX Entertainment (and associates) will handle worldwide distribution. The beginning of the filming of this still untitled film will coincide with the launch in the United States of ‘Heat 2’, a novel written by Mann himself together with Meg Gardiner that acts both as a prequel and a sequel to the popular 1995 film by the hand of the character played by Val Kilmer. Although it is only a novel at the moment, Mann has not missed an opportunity during promotional interviews to emphasize that he intends to make it into a film. An intention that at the moment is nothing more than that, an intention that we will see if it materializes in the near future. Or not.