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Enzo Ferrari, a former racecar driver, is in crisis in the summer of 1957. Bankruptcy threatens the car company he built with his wife, Laura, ten years earlier. The couple is grieving Dino, their only son. Enzo's mistress, Lina Lardi, wants him to give their son, Piero, the Ferrari name. Laura owns half the company's shares, and Enzo needs full control to make a deal that would keep the business alive. His racing team gets ready for the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile endurance race.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ferrari (2023)
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- Michael Mann began developing the film around 2000, and was offered $40 million to make it but refused, because he thought the budget was not enough.
- Christian Bale entered negotiations to star as Enzo Ferrari in 2015, but exited the film in January 2016 over concerns about meeting the role's weight requirements before production began.
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The worn cat's eye that the film depicts as causing de Portago's fatal crash was a real physical prop, not a digital effect: CRP Technologies 3D-printed it from a rubber-like thermoplastic, the same process used for the film's archaic racing helmets.- In April 2017 Hugh Jackman entered negotiations to portray Enzo Ferrari, with Noomi Rapace as his wife, and Paramount no longer involved in the project.
- Adam Driver won the role of Enzo Ferrari on the strength of his performances in Logan Lucky and Marriage Story, after Jackman left; Driver, director Michael Mann and Penélope Cruz all cut their salaries for the film.
