Report: Christian Bale to play Enzo Ferrari in biopic

Deadline.com reports that Christian Bale has signed on to portray Enzo Ferrari in a feature film to be directed by Michael Mann. The movie is expected to be filmed next summer. According to Deadline.com, it willl be set in 1957, "a year where passion, failure, success and death and life all collided."

ABOVE: Lancia-Ferrari 801s of Musso, Collins, Hawthorn and Trintignant lined up in the pits at the 1957 French Grand Prix (LAT archive).