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Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are set to reunite for the first time since 1994's Interview with the Vampire in the car-race drama Go Like Hell, adapted from AJ Baimes' book about the 1960s rivalry between car makers Ford and Ferrari, which would appear to have been fast-tracked after the success of Ron Howard's formula one drama Rush.Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are set to reunite for the first time since 1994's Interview with the Vampire in the car-race drama Go Like Hell, adapted from AJ Baimes' book about the 1960s rivalry between car makers Ford and Ferrari, which would appear to have been fast-tracked after the success of Ron Howard's formula one drama Rush.
Cruise is due to play American car designer Carroll Shelby in a film to be directed by Joseph Kosinski, who recently worked with Cruise on the sci-fi thriller Oblivion. It is not know who Pitt will play, but he was attached to star in the project in an earlier incarnation, according to the Hollywood Reporter, when director Michael Mann was on board. Cruise is due to play American car designer Carroll Shelby in a film to be directed by Joseph Kosinski, who recently worked with Cruise on the sci-fi thriller Oblivion. It is not known who Pitt will play, but he was attached to star in the project in an earlier incarnation, according to the Hollywood Reporter, when director Michael Mann was on board.
Go Like Hell charts the contest for motor-racing supremacy between the American Ford manufacturers and the Italian Ferrari team, climaxing at the 1966 Le Mans 24-Hour endurance race, at which an American car won for the first ever time (through driven by New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon.) Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth has written a new draft of the script with his brother John-Henry. Reading on mobile? Watch a Le Mans archive clip here
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/>Go Like Hell charts the contest for motor-racing supremacy between the American manufacturer Ford and the Italian Ferrari team, climaxing at the 1966 Le Mans 24-Hour endurance race, at which an American car won for the first ever time (through driven by New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon). Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth has written a new draft of the script with his brother John-Henry.
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