Gabriel Leone will star in his first American production. The Brazilian will play racing driver Alfonso de Portago in the biopic “Ferrari”, directed by veteran director Michael Mann.
Not surprisingly, the actor’s most recent Instagram post is the poster for “Fire Against Fire” (1995), Mann’s most famous film.
The Hollywood debut comes after the international success of the “Dom” series, which has become the most viewed non-English attraction on Amazon’s Prime Video platform.
The character played by Leone, Alfonso De Portago, was one of the stars of Ferrari and the greatest symbol of the reckless drivers of the time. He was a wealthy and gallant Spanish aristocrat who captured the imagination of Europe. Favored for winning the traditional Italian Mille Miglia in 1957, his performance had a transformative impact on the competition, but not in the way expected. Spoilers are easily found on the Internet.
The plot is set in the year 1957, the most tumultuous period in Enzo Ferrari’s life, and is based on the book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races”, written by Brock Yates.
The role of Ferrari will be played by Adam Driver (“Casa Gucci”), and the cast also includes Penélope Cruz (“Shadow Mothers”) as his wife Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley (“Big Little Lies”) as Lina. Lardi, the businessman’s lover.
Mann had been trying to get this project off the ground for several years before striking a multi-million dollar deal with the STX studio.
To give you an idea of how old this project is, its original screenwriter, Troy Kennedy Martin (“A Master’s Exit”), died in 2009, Christian Bale dropped out of the lead role in 2016, and Hugh Jackman was “negotiating” for replace it with four years, until presumably it will say yes in 2020, just no.
Meanwhile, Mann has produced a film related to that project, “Ford v Ferrari,” which won two Oscars in 2020.
Still no preview preview for “Ferrari”, which will face the competition of a miniseries of the same name and set in the same period, just announced by Apple TV +.
Source: Terra
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