Michael Mann is currently shooting his “Ferrari” movie in Italy. We weren’t entirely sure about the plot, but Mann has finally revealed the deets to The Film Stage:
“The whole movie is three months in the summer of 1957 in Enzo Ferrari’s life. It’s an opera, it’s melodramatic. Everything he’s been collides with what he might become. The company’s going bust. His wife finds out about the other woman. It’s spectacularly operatic melodrama in real life.”
In ‘57, Enzo Ferrari was 60 years old, his wife a little bit younger than that. For reference, James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari” was set from 1963-1966, which was the era of dominance for the Ferrari vehicle.
A condensed timeframe is not a bad idea when it comes to telling this story. I bet it’ll still be three hours long because that’s just how Michael Mann rolls.
Mann, who is turning 80 next year, hasn’t released a movie since 2015’s “Blackhat.” There have been rumblings that the next one after “Ferrari” could be a sequel to his 1995 classic “Heat.”