Ford v. Ferrari trailer 2 | Time For Tea?
We've only two months to go before the story of Ford's rise to Le Mans dominance hits the silver screen - time for another sneak peek
The story surrounding Ford’s path to victory at Le Mans is the stuff of legend, so it’s a wonder that Hollywood hadn’t already made a film about it. While 1971’s ‘Le Mans’ captured the passion and danger of the 24-hour race it focussed on Porsche, meaning the story of how the Blue Oval halted Ferrari’s winning run in 1966 never made it to the silver screen.
That’s set to change from the November 15th, when a new film called Ford v Ferrari (best to keep things simple, eh) hits theatres with Matt Damon and Christian Bale in the roles of Carroll Shelby and racing legend Ken Miles respectively. In the run up to its launch a second trailer has been released to whet the appetite, with more footage of the GT40’s development story both on and off the track, lots of V8 goodness and – new for this trailer – even the back and forth jibes from Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford.
Nevertheless, we’ll admit to being a little concerned by Bale’s character’s claim that they’ve “90 days” to produce a Ferrari-beating car. Hopefully Disney hasn’t omitted the extensive work carried out in Slough to develop Ford’s racing car from a Lola Mk6 base before Shelby’s involvement, because that would be quite a substantial misinterpretation of the actual story…
This is just a trailer, though, so we’ll cut it some slack for now; let’s just be happy to see a story as iconic as this finally reaching the big screen. Hopefully we’ll all still be happy when we walk out of theatres in two months’ time.
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