Tom Cruise And Joseph Kosinski Hoping Brad Pitt Will ‘Go Like Hell’
By Russ Fischer/Dec. 18, 2013 5:44 pm EST
Cruise is set to play Ford associate and former racing champ Carrol Shelby, for his Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski. Now THR says that they’re courting Pitt to sign on, too. Pitt was actually attached to a different adaptation of the book years ago. Who will he play? He doesn’t look much like the mid-’60s version of Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca, or Enzo Ferrari, but he could be made up to look enough like Ford to squeeze by.
Cormac and Marianne Wibberley (National Treasure) are writing.
Go Like Hell tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done.
Go Like Hell transports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the “pilots” who would drive them to victory, or doom.
