From crash diets to crashed cars , the movie's decade-long journey to the screen was a bumpy one:"It’s far more taxing than people realize."director James Mangold and stars Christian Bale and Matt Damon gathered around a monitor in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles to watch a fight — the awkward and hilarious rumble they had just enacted in front of the cameras.
Jason Keller, who grew up watching the Indianapolis 500, wrote the first draft of the script back in 2009. Along the way, it attracted and lost two directors and two A-list stars . Originally, the story focused equally on the Ford and Ferrari teams, an unwieldy and expensive proposition. In 2011, Mann asked screenwriting brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth to take a pass. Meanwhile, with each passing year, the appetite for racing movies seemed to diminish.
While starving himself to drop weight, Bale was also learning how to drive Formula One race cars. His trainer was Hollywood stunt driver Robert Nagle, and the two spent a week at a racing school in Arizona. Bale — a natural speed freak whose motorcycle-racing hobby ended seven or so years ago after a string of accidents — spent hours every day behind the wheel.
As for the vehicles, production designers borrowed current versions of the GT40s, Cobras and other muscle cars depicted in the film and retrofitted them into cars of that era, which could cost upward of $100,000 per vehicle — a relative bargain considering that an original Carroll Shelby GT40 or Cobra costs anywhere from $25 million to $45 million.
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