Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley to headline Michael Mann's Ferrari

Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, and Shailene Woodley have are all set to headline filmmaker Michael Mann's upcoming biopic of racing mogul Enzo Ferrari.

Titled Ferrari, the film is based on Brock Yates' book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine. Troy Kennedy Martin adapts the book for screen. The movie, which Mann has been working on for two decades, takes place during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company that he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another. He decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race – 1,000 miles across Italy, the iconic Mille Miglia.

Driver replaces Hugh Jackman in the titular role while Cruz is set to play Enzo’s wife Laura. Woodley will play the role of mistress Lina Lardi.

Ferrari is set to begin production in May in Italy. Mann produces the film through his Moto Productions banner alongside PJ van Sandwijk and producer John Lesher, and Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher, and Gareth West. Niels Juul serves as the executive producer.