A film about Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari that’s been a long time within the planning is lastly coming to theaters on Dec. 25, and a brand new trailer has simply been launched.

It follows the primary trailer launched in August, however this time it has some dialog, giving us our first actual style of Adam Driver’s efficiency as Il Commendatore.

The Michael Mann-directed Ferrari focuses on Ferrari’s life throughout the extremely troublesome yr of 1957, when he was near 60 years of age, therefore the grey hair on Driver.

In that yr, a Ferrari 335 S race automobile misplaced a tire throughout the Mille Miglia. The automobile careened right into a crowd the place it killed the motive force, co-driver, and 9 spectators, a lot of whom have been youngsters. Ferrari, nonetheless mourning from the loss of life of his first son, Dino, the yr earlier, and teetering on the sting of chapter, was placed on trial for manslaughter however the case was in the end dismissed.

The film additionally stars Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, taking part in the roles of Ferrari’s spouse, Laura, and his mistress, Lina Lardi, respectively. Lardi is the mom of Ferrari’s solely surviving little one, Piero Ferrari. Patrick Dempsey, an avid racer, additionally makes an look, taking part in the function of racing driver Piero Taruffi.

Though there have been Ferrari biopics earlier than, most notably the 2003 Italian movie Ferrari, the newest movie has been a Hollywood dream just about since Ferrari’s loss of life in 1988, and presumably even earlier than that. For a very long time, it was set to be a ardour venture of director Sydney Pollack, however the director handed away earlier than that might come to be.

Mann, who beforehand directed plenty of in style motion pictures, together with 1995’s Warmth and 2001’s Ali, has additionally been linked with the venture since no less than 2000. In a current interview, he mentioned he was impressed to make a film about Enzo Ferrari when he first noticed a 275 GTB rolling down a London avenue as a movie scholar in 1967.

This text was initially printed by Motor Authority, an editorial accomplice of ClassicCars.com