'I wanted to shoot it like an old-style Western.' Director James Mangold breaks down how he approached a pivotal sequence in FordVFerrari
On location for Ford v Ferrari at Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California. From left: director James Mangold , Matt Damon and Christian Bale around the Ford GT40.
That pivotal sequence in a nearly hourlong racing portion is set on the Mulsanne Straight of Le Mans — a 3.7-mile stretch where the cars can hit over 200 mph. It had changed over the past 50 years, so "we needed to create analogs to the original track," says production designer François Audouy, who studied archival footage of the historic race. For example, "we found three and a half miles of country road outside of Atlanta.
Bale spent six hours daily for almost a week on an Arizona track at Bondurant High Performance Driving School, designed by owner and former driver Bob Bondurant. Says Bale: "It was very helpful having a genuine experience of what it is to be in an extremely fast car, centimeters from other extremely fast cars, and the reflexes that requires.
A Shelby CSX8000 series MkII Continuation Cobra fitted with a Shelby 289 engine, like the model Damon drives, will set collectors back around $150,000. A GT40 like the one raced by Christian Bale, who portrays driver Ken Miles, costs about $210,000.
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