"Goes Like Hell " movie discussion moved to General area

Maybe only people who care about '60s cars will be interested in this movie-I looked it up but can't find any news past 2011. I thought now that Michael Mann's TV series LUCK is on the tube,that he would have the time to decide whether to take on the job of directing this book by AJ Baimewhich focuses on the 1966 battle between Ford and Ferrari when an American car won the Le Mans race for the first time in history. Baime’s story focuses on Henry Ford II, young visionary Lee Iacocca, and former racing champion turned engineer Carroll Shelby. The three worked together to reinvent the Ford company and eventually became the first Americans to win the 24-Hours of Le Mans race in France. (I actually doubt that Iacocca had much to do with it (other than hiring Shelby to build Shelby Mutangs and backin the Cobra) , I've read plenty of books on LeMans in this era and never saw a picture of him there at the races in the '60s

Brad Pitt is rumored to be the lead but I can't imagine who he would be--much to short to be 6'ft. tall Shelby. Though recently he tested a GP car in Europe so somehow he's into speed (not counting those Ducatis..). Michael Mann had one fo the new GTOs for awhile so he's into Ferraris. His other choices of projects are supposed to be Bernard Cornwell’s Agincourt, a novel centered around the 15th century Battle of Agincourt. or a film called Gold, produced by Paul Haggis.
The description of the Baime book on the website Collider.com sounds a bit grisley but here it is:
"By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather’s company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, “science fiction on wheels,” but was also called “the Assassin” because so many drivers perished while racing them."


Go Like Hell tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done.
(I think they forgot about some American cars that won LeMans in the '20s but that was before there were Ferraris..)