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We’ve got big casting news for today. First on our radar is the announcement that Adam Driver is returning to Italy and going from Gucci to Ferrari. He will officially be the new lead of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.” Along with this news, Rashida Jones is making headlines as she’s been tapped to star in a new dark dramedy. Read on to learn more about these new projects.
The Big-Budget “Ferrari” Film Casts Adam Driver
Coming off his starring role in the “House of Gucci,” Adam Driver is taking on another big name as he will play Enzo Ferrari in the new racing biopic, titled “Ferrari,” per Variety. Additionally, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley have also joined the film. Directed by Michael Mann, “Ferrari” will take place during the summer of 1957 when “with his marriage in crisis over the mourning of a son, and the threat of bankruptcy looming over the company he and his wife built 10 years earlier, ex-racecar driver and auto manufacturing giant Enzo Ferrari embarks on a bold race: the Mille Miglia, 1,000 miles across Italy.” Driver replaces Hugh Jackman in the title role, with Cruz playing Laura Ferrari and Woodley playing mistress Lina Lardi. Mann will write the script based on Brock Yates’ book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine.” Filming will take place in Italy this spring for the STX feature.
Rashida Jones Will Star in the New Dark Dramedy “Sunny”
It’s been a few years since Rashida Jones has led a live-action series, but according to Deadline, the “#BlackAF” and “Parks and Recreation” star is heading to Apple for the new dark dramedy “Sunny.” Apple TV+ has ordered ten episodes of the project that Jones will star in and executive produce. Based on the book “Dark Manuel” by Colin O’Sullivan, “Sunny” will follow “Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As ‘consolation’ she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company.” Katie Robbins (“The Affair”) will write the project with Lucy Tcherniak (“Station Eleven”) set to direct. A24 will produce, making “Sunny” the second collaboration between the studio and the streamer after “On the Rocks.” No further casting has been announced at this time.
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