Ford v Ferrari revs into high gear at Toronto International Film Festival

'To make an intelligent action movie was the goal.' Ford v Ferrari is just getting into gear. It won't hit theaters until November 15, but it's already drawn strong reviews and been drafted into this fall's awards season after first debuting at the Telluride Film Festival last week. For Damon, such talk is too early, especially for a movie made with the intention of reaching a mass audience. 'I read the script and I thought it was a crowd-pleasing movie in all the right ways — like a movie that people would want to go see,' said Damon. 'That's what we made. It's just a great underdog story.' Ford v Ferrari dramatizes the Ford Motor Co.'s drive to dethrone the reigning power of international racing, Ferrari, at the 1966 Les Mans, the classic 24-hour endurance race. Damon plays automotive designer Carroll Shelby; Bale plays the headstrong driver Ken Miles. It's a movie about obsession and drive, in which Shelby and Miles are often chafing at the constricting corporate dictates of Ford. Mangold sees his movie, also, as an effort to battle a dominant force. 'I definitely feel, at least inside my own body, that there's exhaustion with the kind of superhero-tentpole movie and all the tropes of them,' said Mangold. 'Certainly Logan was my response. I wasn't just trying to make a Western disguised as a superhero movie. I was also trying to make an original superhero movie.' The 55-year-old Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma) has made a career out of directing a disappearing breed of movie: studio films aimed at adults. Before Joker was winning plaudits for rewriting the superhero film, Mangold's gritty, unadorned take on Wolverine, Logan, became the first superhero film to earn an Oscar nomination for its writing. Ford v Ferrari, costing close to $100 million to make, is a potentially risky project for 20th Century Fox, which after producing the film was acquired by the Walt Disney Co. After disappointing results for Fox's initial releases under its new parent company (Dark Phoenix, Stuber), Ford v Ferrari may turn the tide. But as Shelby initially tells Ford's Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal), 'You can't buy a win.' Yet you can, Shelby says, pay the right people to give you a shot at winning. 'Our goal and all our money was put toward trying to make as analog a film as possible,' said Mangold. 'We tried to do it for real. Our actors could drive.' 'I really didn't want to make a CG race film. Of course, there are visual effects working on the film. But the front-and-center race is something we physically mounted,' he added. 'In that sense, I'm an avowed traditionalist.' DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://benoit.gaillard.aricie.net/UserProfile/tabid/2042/userId/8006/Default.aspx

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