Ferrari by Michael Mann
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16,157 posts

107 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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"It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers' passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia."


BobToc

1,897 posts

134 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Penelope Cruz you say? I’m listening…

williamp

19,891 posts

290 months

Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Michael mann who did miami vice??

Hawthorn and collins driving the new 250 GT Spyder to moody music, at night, on their way to an important meeting...

(Underneath its a C1 corvette...) biggrin


C69

899 posts

29 months

Thursday 31st August 2023
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This project must have taken years to complete. Troy Kennedy Martin is credited as the writer, but he died in 2009.

I thought that his name rang a bell - he also did the screenplay for The Italian Job (original version).

Eric Mc

124,085 posts

282 months

Thursday 31st August 2023
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Looks good - although we have the usual "Hollywood Unnecessary Up-Change" ad nauseum - at least in the trailer.

Kevin Cozner

1,079 posts

121 months

Thursday 31st August 2023
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williamp said:
Michael mann who did miami vice??

Hawthorn and collins driving the new 250 GT Spyder to moody music, at night, on their way to an important meeting...

(Underneath its a C1 corvette...) biggrin
Just need someone to cover this in Italian

https://youtu.be/OQYaXlokTz4?si=e6FD-NSiFLTY5Fq8

Truckosaurus

12,728 posts

301 months

Thursday 31st August 2023
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C69 said:
This project must have taken years to complete. Troy Kennedy Martin is credited as the writer, but he died in 2009.

I thought that his name rang a bell - he also did the screenplay for The Italian Job (original version).
I noticed that as well. I believe there are lots of strict rules on who gets credited as writer. Wikipedia suggests the story is based on Brock Yates' book on Enzo Ferrari, so if TKM wrote a screenplay based on the book years ago and even if not a single word remains in the final version of the film then he still gets the credit.

123DWA

1,432 posts

120 months

Thursday 31st August 2023
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Hopefully its better than that awful Lamborghini film that came out last year (not a high bar to set hehe)

soad

34,056 posts

193 months

Friday 1st September 2023
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BobToc said:
Penelope Cruz you say? I’m listening…
She’s, what? Nearly 50 now.

Easy tiger. hehe

tobinen

9,999 posts

162 months

Friday 1st September 2023
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Age is no barrier to being hot crumpet, 50 or otherwise.

Mazinbrum

1,087 posts

195 months

Friday 1st September 2023
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soad said:
BobToc said:
Penelope Cruz you say? I’m listening…
She’s, what? Nearly 50 now.

Easy tiger. hehe
Looks mighty fine when your 58 like me.

williamp

19,891 posts

290 months

Friday 1st September 2023
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123DWA said:
Hopefully its better than that awful Lamborghini film that came out last year (not a high bar to set hehe)
The colin chapman film would be fascinating.

Who else? William Lyons, the musical??
Andre citroen, featuring Audrey Tautou.. (yes please)
Ferdi Porsche on the eve/after WW2 is a good story

British Leyland is a whole Netflix series waiting to be made!!


coppice

9,298 posts

161 months

Saturday 2nd September 2023
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Raymond Mays' life might be an interesting story to remove from the ...err...closet ...

Hol

9,138 posts

217 months

Sunday 3rd September 2023
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williamp said:
123DWA said:
Hopefully its better than that awful Lamborghini film that came out last year (not a high bar to set hehe)
The colin chapman film would be fascinating.

Who else? William Lyons, the musical??
Andre citroen, featuring Audrey Tautou.. (yes please)
Ferdi Porsche on the eve/after WW2 is a good story

British Leyland is a whole Netflix series waiting to be made!!
BL one would not be unlike a 1971 carry on film satire.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066895/



Scabutz

8,548 posts

97 months

Sunday 3rd September 2023
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C69 said:
This project must have taken years to complete. Troy Kennedy Martin is credited as the writer, but he died in 2009.

I thought that his name rang a bell - he also did the screenplay for The Italian Job (original version).
It must have been in some sort of planning hell. It was first talked about yonks ago and Christian Bale was going to play Enzo originally but he dropped out because he didn't want to do another massive weight gain cycle.

Murph7355

40,467 posts

273 months

Sunday 3rd September 2023
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123DWA said:
Hopefully its better than that awful Lamborghini film that came out last year (not a high bar to set hehe)
Car movies always seem to be pretty poor IMO.

The stories are better told in books.

Paul Dishman

5,032 posts

254 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Also features Ben Collins ( yes, that one ) as Stirling Moss driving

skwdenyer

18,448 posts

257 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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williamp said:
The colin chapman film would be fascinating.
If you can find him to buy the rights to his story… wink

As LJK Setright observed, Chapman died with remarkably little scrutiny and very convenient timing.

coppice

9,298 posts

161 months

Tuesday 5th September 2023
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A chap who was fettling my Seven in about '98 was a former Lotus mechanic in the ACBC era . He told me- earnestly and with a straight face - that he'd seen him holding court in the Kentagon at Brands , in the Nineties .

The late and lovely Kirsty McColl put it best ' There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis'

phil-sti

2,896 posts

196 months

Tuesday 5th September 2023
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123DWA said:
Hopefully its better than that awful Lamborghini film that came out last year (not a high bar to set hehe)
I was just about to aythe same thing