A couple of months ago news emerged that Christian Bale had signed on to play the central role in a biopic of Enzo Ferrari that director Michael Mann has been planning for many years.
Now THR adds that Noomi Rapace is in talks to star, with Paramount picking up the project to fund it.
The film apparently concentrates on a single year, 1957. That year is particularly significant for the Italian car-maker, as it was when Ferrari driver, Alfonso de Portago, was killed during the Mille Miglia race. The driver and nine spectators died when a tire blew out and his car careened into the roadside crowd.
It caused a major crisis for Ferrari that could have destroyed the company, especially as Enzo was charged with manslaughter over the event. Rapace would play Farrari’s wife, Laura Dominica.
Christian Bale may be living out his fast car dreams soon as 
In the wake of Sony Pictures dealing with the fallout from the raid on its computer and the subsequent leaking of huge amounts of confidential information, Blackhat feels like a very timely movie for Hollywood. A new trailer has been released so we can get a better feel fro Chris Hemsworth’s trip into cyber attack territory.
The first trailer has arrived for Michael Mann’s first film since 2009’s Public Enemies, the rather dully titled Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth.
Chris Hemsworth may be busy on the Avengers: Age Of Ultron set at the moment, but before that he was working for Michael Mann to make an upcoming techno-thriller. The movie was shot under the title Cyber, but the tweet from actor Holt McCallany that accompanied one of the first pictures from the movie, suggests he may now become Black Hat.
Viola Davis scored a big hit with The Help, but we haven’t seen too much of her since then, especially as her recent movie, Beautiful Creatures, bombed at the box office. Later this year we’ll see her in The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby, Ender’s Game and Prisoners. Now she’s lined up another film, as 
While he’s brought Luck to TV and produced his daughter’s directorial debut, Texas Killing Fields, we haven’t had a new movie from Michael Mann since 2009’s Public Enemies. Now he’s added a possible new flick – although probably not his next – to his list, as Columbia Pictures has brought on Mann to direct The Big Stone Grid, a project which was first set up by the studio last March.