Apple TV+ announced a straight-to-series order for the new racing drama “Ferrari.”
The biographical series on the late Italian race car driver and eponymous entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari is from Academy Award nominee Steven Knight, with Oscar-winning “The Hand of God” filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino set to executive produce.
“Ferrari” is inspired by the bestselling biographical novel “Ferrari Rex” by Luca Dal Monte, named by The New York Times as the “definitive biography” on the famed figure. The series traces Ferrari’s highs and lows, following the tragic death of his first son Dino in 1956 and what he considered to be a large betrayal by his lead driver Juan Manuel Fangio, which led him to assemble a new all-star team of five promising drivers.