Camille Delamarre To Direct ‘Bugatti: The Final Race’ For Andrea Iervolino, Who Makes Scriptwriting Debut
Filmmaker Andrea Iervolino has enlisted director Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions, The Transporter Refueled) to direct Bugatti: The Final Race, a biopic about car maker Ettore Bugatti. The project marks a milestone for Iervolino, who is scripting one of his own films for the first time, co-writing with Alberto Ferrari after original writer Bobby Moresco departed the role. It is the latest in Iervolino's series of films dramatising famous Italian car marques, following Lamborghini, Michael Mann's Ferrari and Maserati.
The film, produced by the Andrea Iervolino American Company, is set in Paris in 1947 during Bugatti's final months, as he seeks to reclaim the Molsheim factory and name taken from him. Delamarre said the production would use real vintage cars, including a 1939 straight-eight engine, rather than relying on visual effects, framing the story as centred on the relationship between a father and son. Iervolino described the project as the culmination of his "Italian obsession with speed" trilogy, calling Bugatti "art applied to an engine."
- Camille Delamarre to direct Bugatti biopic for Andrea Iervolino
- Iervolino writes a screenplay for the first time himself
- Film follows earlier Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati biopics
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Ettore Bugatti was an Italian-born car designer and manufacturer whose company became known for high-performance cars. Its factory was in Molsheim, in what is now France, and the Bugatti name became closely associated with craftsmanship and motor racing.
The film is set in 1947, near the end of Bugatti’s life, when he was trying to regain control of the factory and his company’s name. It is being made by producer Andrea Iervolino, who has also backed films about Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati; director Camille Delamarre is known for action films including Brick Mansions.