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Hugh Jack­man is play­ing Enzo Fer­rari in Michael Mann’s biopic

10 Mar 2017

Words by Jack Godwin

A smiling man wearing a coat and tie behind the steering wheel of a car.
A smiling man wearing a coat and tie behind the steering wheel of a car.
The Logan star will play the Ital­ian auto entre­pre­neur in the director’s long-ges­tat­ing drama.

Michael Mann’s long-ges­tat­ing biopic, Fer­rari, has start­ed up again, with Hugh Jack­man now set to star along­side Noo­mi Rapace. Jack­man will play the Ital­ian auto­mo­bile com­pa­ny founder and rac­ing dri­ver Enzo Fer­rari, and Rapace will play his estranged wife Lau­ra, whose tumul­tuous rela­tion­ship with the entre­pre­neur will be a cen­tral focus.

Set in 1957 and based on Brock Yates’ book ​‘Enzo Fer­rari, The Man, The Cars, The Races’, Troy Kennedy-Martin’s script will pre­dom­i­nant­ly cen­tre on Ferrari’s bat­tle for suprema­cy against rival Alfieri Maserati. Mann began work on the project 17 years ago, ini­tial­ly in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Syd­ney Pol­lack, who died in 2008.

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Chris­t­ian Bale was orig­i­nal­ly attached to play the lead until he left the project in 2016 over a sched­ul­ing con­flict. Fer­rari will be Mann’s fol­low-up to 2015’s Black­hat, and is due to go into pro­duc­tion in sum­mer 2018.

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