Netflix has presented a new trailer for its dramatisation of the life of Ayrton Senna.
The six-part series, which was originally supposed to debut in 2022, which will arrive on the streaming service next month.Gabriel Leone stars as the three-times world champion who made his debut in 1984 and passed away 10 years later when he crashed while leading the San Marino Grand Prix.
The trailer shows the series covers Senna’s career starting from his early years racing go karts. After telling his father “I know I can be a champion”, footage shows him at each of his four Formula 1 teams: Toleman, Lotus, McLaren and Williams.
His rivalry with Alain Prost (played by Matt Mella) inevitably forms part of the narrative – the two are shown eyeing each other up while a journalist observes “McLaren’s fracturing in two.” Senna is also shown introducing himself to Niki Lauda (Johannes Heinrichs).
Senna’s racing career was previously explored in detail in a successful 2010 documentary, also called Senna. Netflix says its series will “for the first time, depict the journey of overcoming obstacles, ups and downs, joys, and sorrows of Ayrton, exploring his personality and personal relationships.”
Several of Senna’s family and friends appear as characters in the film, including his wife Lilian, girlfriends Xuxa and Adriane, father Maurao, mother Zaza and sister Vivianne.
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Producer Gullane Entretenimento says its series will “be a profound immersion into the life and career of one of the greatest icons of Brazilian and global sports.”
“Senna will explore not only the moments of glory on the track but also the personal challenges faced by Ayrton Senna throughout his life,” it adds. “The series will have six thrilling episodes, the story begins at the start of his career in England, competing in Formula Ford, and spans various moments of his life, up to the tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix.”
Netflix will launch its Senna series on November 29th. Gullane Entretenimento is also working on another Senna feature, a documentary focusing on his karting years.
Pictures: Netflix’s Senna series
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Tristan (@skipgamer)
29th October 2024, 21:58
Interested to see how it portrays his personal life and challenges. Seen some interesting allegations pop up over the years… Will he be a hero that can do no wrong? Or will there be some nuance to his depiction?
Chris
30th October 2024, 0:40
What child actor will play the part of Adriane Yamin? Google “Senna 15”.
MacLeod (@macleod)
30th October 2024, 8:01
You talk about a time much freer then now and to quote someone:
The youngsters and parents of now shocked but they forgot in the past it was normal. (around the 1900s marriage when you were 12 is not strange)
For people like me it’s very strange coming from a era where prudish to freedom and now again prudish…
anon
30th October 2024, 8:52
@macleod whilst you claim that “(around the 1900s marriage when you were 12 is not strange)”, in quite a few countries, marrying at that age would have been considered, at best, abnormal – contrary to what you claim, it’s actually quite rare to find people marrying at that age – and, at worst, trying to get married at the age of 12 in the 1900s would have actually been considered a criminal offence in several countries.
Similarly, your claims that “they forgot in the past it was normal” is also not true either – there have been quite a few studies looking at variations in the age at which people might form long term relationships in different societies over extended periods of time, and those show that it would be far more normal for somebody at the age of 25 to be in a relationship with somebody of a similar age – typically in their early 20’s – than to be in a relationship with somebody that was only in their mid teens. It’s not to do with “prudishness” or your peculiar ideas about “a time much freer than now”, given that those trends are actually not that dissimilar for centuries – people are just generally much more likely to form relationships with people of a similar age due to shared social norms.
Some might also ask – apart from the fact your ideas of what sort of relationships people had in the 1900s is wrong – why you seem to be talking about social practices from nearly a century earlier than the period in which Senna began his relationship with Adriane Yamin (which was in the mid to late 1980s).
Adriane Yamin
7th November 2024, 21:10
Thank for your providing pertinent information to people who intend to tarnish Senna”s hornor
Adriane Yamin
7th November 2024, 21:12
What kind of mean and disrespectful comment is that ?
MichaelN
30th October 2024, 10:45
Some of the CGI looks great, but the real movement of an F1 car going through corners will be very hard to get right. There’s a lot of that slight roll that is very hard to replicate properly.
Hopefully they don’t go for the lazy Prost is bad, the French are out to get Our Hero, silliness because it otherwise looks like a pretty impressive series visually.
Mayrton
31st October 2024, 7:35
Oh my, if it is anything like the over dramatisation of Drive to Survive, I will have to rethink my Netflix subscription. It is one thing that they circusfy the current F1 arena, but to touch legends of the past is simply inappropriate and reprehensible.