Christian Bale To Star In Michael Mann Ferrari Biopic – The Daily Double Talk
By Tommy McGrew
Move over Vincent Chase (the fictional actor from HBO’s Entourage) it looks like another one of your fake movies is being turned into a reality. Director Michael Mann and Oscar winning actor Christian Bale will team up once again for an Enzo Ferrari biopic. Mann who had directed a Ferrari commercial seems like a perfect fit for the project there have been a few times where the idea for an Enzo Ferrari biopic came his way but they never really got them off the ground. But with an actor like Christian Bale onboard it’s no doubt that as far as the cast goes it will more likely than not, come together smoothly. Mann and bail work together on 2008 public enemies, a film that I like more than most to do. My only concern is man’s particular style of filming he loves to use HD cameras even in period pieces as we saw in the aforementioned public enemies. It’s a gimmick that they got outdated years ago. When Michael Mann first started filming in HD the cameras were not at the quality they are now. So now his movies just look like they were shot with iPhones. But visuals aside the story here may prove to be more interesting than you think. Cecchi Gori Pictures CEO Niels Juul said,
“It’s a beautiful tale of the story of Ferrari battling with Maserati for supremacy in speed, yet it’s not a racing movie: It’s a ‘Godfather’ movie with racing in it.”
The movie is said to be based on the 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: the man the cars the race written by Brock Yates.
It’s description:
To his legion of admirers, Italian auto titan Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988) was a genius who personally created marvelous cars of advanced design. But as Car and Driver columnist Yates points out in this captivating, demythologizing biography, none of Ferrari’s racing cars “was a glittering example of daring technology,” and he had almost no hand in the making of the later road cars that bore his name. Revealed as a hot-tempered megalomaniac given to loud belching and countless amorous conquests, Ferrari fathered an illegitimate child and led a shadowy second life as a respite from the “simmering hatred” of his marriage. He portrayed himself as a loyal “motorized knight-errant,” defending Italy’s national honor, but in Yates’s esimate he was interested solely in winning races and sometimes pushed his drivers to dangerous extremes. Yates deftly records the carnage of major races, business wheeling and dealing, and the political dimensions of motor racing from the pre-WW II Rome-Berlin Axis to today’s ribbon-waving nationalism.
No word yet on any release dates.
[Source: Slashfilm]