Matt Damon to star in new Ford vs Ferrari war film

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
21 Jun 2018
1 min read

The Ford and Ferrari wars were one of the most amazing sporting tales of the 1960s, and Matt Damon has reportedly signed on to star as the head of one half of the battle. Damon, the action star famous for portraying Jason Bourne, has stepped in to replace Tom Cruise who was to play Carroll Shelby.

Shelby, winner of the 1959 Le Mans 24 Hour and creator of the brutish V8 Cobra sports car, assisted Ford with their program to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. 

The war between the two famous marques was sparked when Enzo Ferrari renigged on a deal to sell his company to Ford, who took it personally. Ford developed the iconic GT model (known colloquially as the GT40 due to its 40in height) in response, and after several years of development Shelby's Fords laid waste to the Italians for four years straight.

Variety reports James Mangold (Logan, Walk The Line) will direct. There is no release date stated.

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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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