It was several years ago when we had the film producers contact us about hiring some cars for filming at Le Mans . [ I help build the cars in this link ]
http://www.asmotorsport.co.uk/
Which were for filming scenes from the 59 Le Mans race , so the plan was to do some filming from the circuit .
But the original film , called " Go Like Hell " , with Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt , fell through . Possibly not enough money from the Hollywood backers as the real story was not American enough with the 1966 winning GT40 being UK designed & built .
So it seems that they had to invent an all American success story to get the money to make the film .
I was looking forward to a run down to Le Mans with a couple of cars for a few days but that might have been too costly to do the filming there .