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Discussion in 'Ferrari Discussion (not model specific)' started by bitzman, May 6, 2011.

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  1. bitzman

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    #1 bitzman, May 6, 2011
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    REF: http://www.dealmemo.com/Content/Feb2002/News0201.htm#_Toc308088

    This could be old news, but apparently the success of the latest Fast & Furious film has sparked Hollywood's interest in car films.

    I know Michael Mann, the director of Miami Vice, both the TV series and the film, has just wrapped the first season of LUCK, a series on horse racing, but I didn't know until today that he was planning a Ferrari biopic.

    On a website called Dealmemo.com they say that "Michael Mann plans to produce a biopic on automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari, whose family redefined the concept of the high-powered Italian sports car and almost single-handedly created Formula One racing. "

    They say the film is inspired by Brock Yates' 1991 book "Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Race, the Machine," and that going as far back as 1993, Mann intended to direct the film with Robert De Niro playing the part of Enzo. He now plans not to be the director, says the article but to produce the film, in partnership with Disney-backed Spyglass Entertainment and Mirage Enterprises, the shingle of Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella. David Rayfiel ("Sabrina") is penning the latest draft.

    The book went as far back as WWI and similarly this book says the story "is an epic tale shaped by the forces of two world wars, the rise of fascism, family tragedies and a single-minded determination that pushed him to work seven days a week but left little room for personal relationships." (f you read the book by the way Ferrari comes across as a real SOB)

    Pollack is dead now but he directed and produced the 1977 picture "Bobby Deerfield," the story of an American racer on the European circuit that starred Al Pacino that was a real turkey. I think it lasted one day in the theatres. Pollack also collected Ferraris and at one time had a 275GTB NART spyder that he worked onto the screen in one of his films. Anthony Minghella has also passed so I wonder who is left at Mirage Enterprises to produce this?

    That's what happens in Hollywood, you die waiting for some projects to get green-lighted...
     

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