STXfilms Takes Worldwide Rights With May
Start for Biopic
Academy Award®-nominee Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies,
Heat) has cast Academy Award® nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story,
Star Wars) and Academy Award® winner Penélope Cruz (Parallel
Mothers, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Enzo and Laura Ferrari and
Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Descendants) as Lina Lardi
in his highly anticipated film Ferrari. Mann will direct from a
script written by Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job) and Mann
based on Brock Yates’ book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine.
Mann will produce via his Moto Productions banner alongside P.J.
van Sandwijk and John Lesher, as well as Lars Sylvest, Thorsten
Schumacher and Gareth West with Niels Juul executive producing.
Principal photography is set to start this spring in Italy and the
film will be released worldwide by STXfilms and its partners, it
was announced today by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STXfilms Motion
Picture Group and John Friedberg, President of
STXinternational.
It's the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in
crisis. All the dramatic forces of his life - as volatile as the
red race cars he builds - are in collision. Bankruptcy stalks the
company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years
earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for
one son and the acknowledgement of another. The passionate
instigator of men inspires his Spring Team of drivers, some like
surrogate sons. He blunts a hostile press with strafing wit and
boldly strategizes to roll the dice on one race – 1,000 miles
across Italy, the infamous Mille Miglia. As the red cars slam
through towns and mountain passes towards unpredictable outcomes,
the future of these vivid characters’ lives are being written.
Michael Mann has said, “Being able to have these wonderfully
talented artists, actors Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene
Woodley, bring to life these unique characters on location in
Modena and the Emilia-Romagna is a vision fulfilled.”
Adam Fogelson has added “Ferrari is so much more than a story
about a man and his machine. It is an extraordinary and emotional
story that Michael has been developing for years and the entire
team at STX is looking forward to the start of production with this
dream cast and filmmaker. Adam Driver is one of the most talented
and fascinating actors working today, and we could not be more
thrilled to pair him with Penélope, whose legendary career builds
with every role she takes.”
Driver is a two-time Oscar® nominee for his work in
BlacKkKlansman and Marriage Story. Recent credits include Annette,
The Last Duel and House of Gucci. He next stars in Sony Pictures’
sci-fi thriller 65, as well as Netflix’s White Noise, Noah
Baumbach’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. He is represented
by Gersh and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Cruz, nominated this week for Best Actress in Parallel Mothers,
won the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Vicky
Cristina Barcelona and was nominated another two times for her
roles in Volver and Nine. In addition to Parallel Mothers for Sony,
she currently stars in IFC’s Official Competition opposite Antonio
Banderas. She is represented by CAA.
Woodley was previously nominated for an Emmy for Big Little Lies
and won the Independent Spirit Award for Alexander Payne’s The
Descendants. Most recently, she can be seen in The Mauritanian with
Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch and The Last Letter From Your
Lover. She is currently filming the Showtime limited series Three
Women and can next be seen in Damian Szifron’s thriller
Misanthrope. She is represented by Hyperion, Range Media Partners
and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.
Proudly filming on location in Italy, Mann will bring his
passion for the extraordinarily vivid characters who created the
fusion of art in motion and racing power that is Ferrari in an
epic, cinematic experience set in the dangerous world of motor
racing in the 1950s. Industry legend Mann is a four-time Academy
Award® nominee for Best Picture (The Insider, The Aviator), for
Best Screenplay (The Insider) and for Best Director (The Insider)
and an Emmy winner (The Jericho Mile). His iconic feature writing
and directing credits also include Heat, The Last of the Mohicans,
Collateral, Public Enemies, Ali, Miami Vice, and Thief. He was also
an executive producer on the Academy Award®-nominated Ford vs
Ferrari.
Oscar®-winning producer John Lesher, best known for Bird Man,
Fury, Hostiles, Black Mass among other movies, has collaborated
with Mann on the new original limited series, “Tokyo Vice,” which
premieres on HBO Max April 7, 2022.
BAFTA nominated producer P.J. van Sandwijk, best known for The
Rescue, Locked Down and Ron Howard’s forthcoming Thirteen Lives as
well as Tom Cruise’s Untitled Space Film; Hollywood’s first ever
narrative feature film to shoot in outer space.
Niels Juul’s credits include The Irishman and Silence.
Jill Silfen, Executive VP of Business and Legal Affairs for
STXfilms, and Harold Brown, of Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown &
Passman negotiated the deal.
About STXfilms
STXfilms, a division of Eros STX Global Corporation, is a
next-generation film studio that produces, acquires, distributes,
and markets motion pictures at scale. From blockbusters like
Greenland, Hustlers, Bad Moms, and The Upside to hits like The
Gentlemen, Molly’s Game, and The Gift, STXfilms produces
star-driven films for a global audience. In just 7 short years, its
slate of films has already grossed over $1.8b in global theatrical
box office. With a wide range of partners including Universal
Pictures Home Entertainment and Showtime (which handle the physical
and premium television releases of STXfilms content, respectively),
the studio is a fast-growing, industry powerhouse. Upcoming films
include Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre directed by Guy Ritchie
and starring Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, and Josh
Hartnett, The Contractor starring Chris Pine, The Marsh King's
Daughter directed by Neil Burger and starring Daisy Ridley and Ben
Mendelsohn, Bed Rest starring Melissa Barrera, American Sole
starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Camila Mendes, Offset, and Bad Bunny,
The Godmother starring Jennifer Lopez, and Muscle starring Vin
Diesel and directed by F. Gary Gray.
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