Meet ONLINE from 7:00-10:00 PM Pacific Time on December 11th for an in-depth analysis and discussion of the screenplay for Michael Mann’s FERRARI.
LOGLINE: With his auto empire in crisis and his marriage in shambles, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari enters the 1957 Mille Miglia, a treacherous thousand-mile race across Italy.
ABOUT THE WRITERS: Ferrari is based on the 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine by BROCK YATES, executive editor of Car and Driver magazine. Yates, who died in 2016, co-conceived and drove in the non-stop Cannonball Run cross-country race and co-wrote the screenplay for the film of the same name as well as the screenplay for Smokey and the Bandit II. The book was adapted by British screenwriter TROY KENNEDY MARTIN, who began writing for the BBC in 1958, creating the six-part 1961 anthology miniseries Storyboard. His first and best-known feature film screenplay was the original 1969 version of The Italian Job starring Michael Caine. Martin died in 2009 while Ferrari was still in development. Director MICHAEL MANN, who first became interested in making this film in 2000, did an uncredited rewrite. (We will be reading and discussing his 2015 draft.) Mann’s other credits as writer and director include Thief (1981) starring James Caan, Heat (1995) starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, and Miami Vice (2006), based on the 1980s TV series he produced.
(registration deadline: Friday, December 8)
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Ferrari stars two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (Star Wars sequel trilogy) as Enzo Ferrari, with Pelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky) as his wife, Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars) as his mistress, and Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy). The biopic, which received a seven-minute standing ovation at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in August, opens wide on Christmas Day.
Rated R. 131 pages. 130 minutes. Drama. Biopic. Sports.
JAMES ‘DOC’ MASON will provide in-depth script analysis and lead our discussion. Doc is a screenwriter, producer, consultant, and father of four. His book, Mastering the Logline: How to Excite Hollywood With a Single Sentence, with a foreword by WME story editor Christopher Lockhart, is available on Amazon. Doc is currently in pre-production on a drama feature Journey to Now, and is co-writer of the 2021 thriller feature Caged starring Edi Gathegi and Melora Hardin.
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