Ferrari, directed by Michael Mann, was one of the most anticipated films of the first third of the year. The movie starring Penelope Cruz and Adam Driver, released in Spain on February 9, recalls the story of Enzo Ferrari. He biopic It takes place in the 1950s, at which time Enzo (Driver) suddenly loses his son Dino and maintains a parallel life behind the back of his wife Laura (Cruz). In addition to the problems he faces at home, The Ferrari company is not having its best moment either.: The wave of accidents has caused more and more drivers to lose their lives and the team’s results in races are also not up to expectations. To have the best cars, Ferrari will need an economic boost that will force it to make delicate decisions.
To face a decisive race for the future of the company, the Mille MigliaFerrari appoints a series of drivers including Peter Collins, Olivier Gendebienthe young man Alfonso de Portago or the veteran Piero Taruffi (played by Patrick Dempsey). Ferrari Not only did he recover the competitive spirit of the Italian team, he also rebuilt the cars used in the past in an almost millimeter way (and in record time) for filming. Months after its theatrical release, Mann’s film will land in Prime Video next May 17.
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The absolute protagonist of the film is Adam Driver. The actor, known for giving life to Kylo Ren in the saga Star Wars and for movies like Story of a marriage either Paterson, He steps into the shoes of Enzo Ferrari, the driver and engineer who founded the iconic company. Penélope Cruz has one of the most complicated roles in the film, since Laura Ferrari was a very complex character, even more so in a film told from the perspective of her husband. The actress plays the wife of Enzo Ferrari, who built the workshop and the company during the Second World War, when the factory was moved from Modena to Maranello to avoid bombings.
“As there was very little documentation about her, I arrived a month before filming to meet people who knew her well,” Cruz revealed in his interview with The Anthill, in which he detailed how he approached the character. “I stopped strangers on the street, asked them about her and I didn’t like what I received because I felt a great lack of compassion and empathy towards her.“, clarified the interpreter, who added that the wife’s reputation reached exaggerated limits: “They called her crazy, she was a person that everyone feared, because she was very complicated, very dark,” she then concluded.
The cars that appear in the film are not originals, they are reconstructions of those that the company used in racing in the 1950s. A team of 12 people built nine cars in just 22 weeks, and they were not simple exhibition cars: they were fully functional cars, with about 280 horsepower, designed to be driven safely and that They reached speeds of over 160 km/h. The fact that they were constructions capable of being driven like a normal car was an incentive for the actors of Ferrari.
Replicas built specifically for Mann’s film are models that cost millions of dollars and they are not easy to acquire at auctions, hence it was necessary to build them from scratch. Neil Layton and his company, Auto Action Development, They were responsible for rebuilding all the cars with historical accuracy. Layton’s business had already built the Tumbler Batmobile from the movie tapes. The dark knight and Batman Beginsin addition to some of the cars used in feature films of the James Bond saga, the most recent, the DB5-AKA from No time to die. “Working with Michael Mann is the dream of any kid in the film industry,” declared Layton himself.
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The biggest challenge for Auto Action Development was getting the data needed to reproduce the cars. Layton collaborated closely with Aston Martin on No time to diebut He did not have such help from Ferrari. To match the original cars as closely as possible, Layton had to obtain all the data necessary to replicate the cars. He did so by asking owners if he could scan priceless pieces from their respective collections and, in the case of the single-seater Ferrari 801, find a toy model on an auction site, scan it and enlarge it. It was also difficult manage the delivery of all parts of the different suppliers.
