Watch Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz in pulse-pounding trailer to Michael Mann's 'Ferrari'
A pulse-pounding trailer to "Ferrari," the anticipated biopic about legendary Italian supercar designer Enzo Ferrari, has arrived.
The trailer was released Wednesday by independent movie company NEON. The film, set in 1957, stars Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, and intercuts between the blacktop drama of the 1,000-mile race across Italy known as the Mille Miglia and Ferrari's personal and professional struggles.
He is facing financial ruin, and his volatile marriage to Laura, played by Cruz, is damaged by infidelity and the death of their son Dino.
He also struggles to acknowledge the son he fathered out of wedlock with his mistress, played by Woodley.
With his back against the wall, Ferrari bets his company, and his legacy, on the race.
The trailer also delves into the fallout from that decision: In real life, Ferrari bet it all on the 1957 Mille Miglia. However, 40 miles from the finish line, the Ferrari 335 S crewed by driver Alfonso de Portago and navigator Edmund Nelson blew a tire and smashed into a telephone pole, killing both men, as well as nine spectators, five of whom were children. The Italian government permanently banned the Mille Miglia three days after that race.
"If Italy is looking for a scapegoat, then here I am!" Driver bellows in the trailer in the wake of the crash, before the assembled media.
"Ferrari" races into theaters on Dec. 25.
