There Is A 3rd Enzo Ferrari Movie In The Works
There has been talk about Ferrari films for years, and now it seems there are 3 of them said to be in the works.
In April, Robert De Niro confirmed he was set to portray Enzo Ferrari in a forthcoming biopic about Il Commendatore. Shortly afterward, Michael Mann announced a competing and as-yet untitled Ferrari film reportedly based on Brock Yates’s book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races.
Now LTN has learned that there is a 3rd Enzo Ferrari film in preparation, this one written by Manish Pandey, the man who did the script for 2010’s Senna.
The film is called Ferrari and is set in the 1950’s, covering the era when Juan Manuel Fangio drove for the team and when Enzo’s son Dino died at the age of 24. Mr. Pandey says the film will be made with Ferrari’s cooperation and that the script has recently been submitted to Ferrari’s vice-Chairman Piero Ferrari, Enzo’s son for his approval.
“We have no film without Ferrari,” says Mr. Pandey. “That’s why we cannot announce this project at all. It’s in development until Ferrari gets aboard, and that is something that Piero Ferrari has to support. For me it is like what we did with the Senna family, we have to have his support, it is his family’s history. He is a wonderful man and I had lunch with him a few weeks ago.”
Mr. Pandey has been working on the project since July 2008 and sayd it has come close to being an obsession.
“It’s important to surround yourself with genuine experts, not just people who mouth off. We have been working with Richard Williams, who wrote what in my opinion is the finest English book on Enzo Ferrari,” explains Mr. Pandey. “I have also spent a good deal of time with Stirling Moss talking about that era and looking through some of his scrapbooks. He was there and he remembers so much about it, and he has a beautiful sense of context, too. He has thoughts on why Enzo did not go to races and why he hired drivers.”
Mr. Pandey believes Piero Ferrari’s approval will be vital to getting Ferrari SpA aboard.
“It’s a historic project so we are not talking about current Ferrari, but it’s an incredible brand and this really is the era when so much of what it is now was defined. I don’t know how you even go to approach the brand without having the son of the founder onboard 1st, hat’s how we will do it. And if he feels that this project is worthy of his support then we’ll move to the next stage, which is getting a director, and then with that director we will go and get a cast. There are no shortcuts here.”
Enzo Ferrari was between 52 and 60 during the period the film is set in, and De Niro is currently 71 anni. He has made it clear this is a role he really wants to play, it is certainly a performance that many of us would love to see.
“We’re nowhere near the casting stage yet,” says Mr. Pandey. “We have sought Piero Ferrari’s blessing. Once we have got that, and if corporate Ferrari feels it’s the right thing to do, we will gently approach the right director and then once they are aboard they will assemble the cast and find the chemistry.”
Looking forward to seeing each and every film that is made about Ferrari, and its iconic founder.
Stay tuned…
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Paul Ebeling
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