Brad Pitt Formula One Movie Gets an Exciting Update
When it was revealed that actor Brad Pitt would co-star in an untitled Formula One film with Kerry Condon and Damson Idris, the audience was ecstatic. The followers have been anticipating any new information about the movie.
Pitt plays a former race car driver who returns to the sport in the untitled film, which will be filmed this summer at various Grand Prix. But after a protracted wait, the film finally received an update with the addition of a well-known face.
Tobias Menzies joins Brad Pitt starrer in untitled Formula One movie
According to reports, the British actor who is famously known for his exceptional work as Prince Philip in Netflix’s The Crown, Tobias Menzies is the latest actor to be joining the cast of the movie. Menzies, who won an Emmy Award for portraying Prince Philip on the show, is excited to be a part of the anticipated movie and his character has been kept under wraps.
The movie is the creation of director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the duo behind the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise. Ehren Kruger and Formula One will write the film’s screenplay. The champion Lewis Hamilton will produce it under his Dawn Apollo Films label. Along with Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Bruckheimer and Chad Oman will produce for Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
The only thing that is known about the movie is that Brad Pitt plays a retired Formula One driver who teams up with a young driver played by Damson Idris and comes out of retirement.
Untitled Formula One movie marks the collaboration between Brad Pitt and Lewis Hamilton
Back in October, the seven-time F1 Champion shared “I have such high hopes for it. I know we’re going to make the best racing movie that’s ever existed, both visually, and we’re going to work on making sure we pull on the heartstrings of all those fans.”
The Formula One champion shared in June, “It’s a really cool project. We’re already working on the script, for example … which is fun, spending a good time with Brad, which is pretty epic.”
The movie will start shooting at the British Grand Prix in July, and according to some sources, Pitt will likely take the wheel of an ’11th Team’ vehicle during the pre-race formation lap. Pitt will be driving a modified F2 vehicle for the Apex team. According to reports, Pitt has driven more than 1,000 km while practicing in France.
As he attended the US Grand Prix in Austin, where he met with Pitt and Hamilton and waved the checkered flag to end the race, Apple CEO Tim Cook seemed to be taking a direct interest in the production of the film.
Lewis Hamilton aspires to make the Brad Pitt starrer movie ‘diverse’
The seven-time F1 champion Hamilton, who is teaming up with one of the finest actors in the generation, Pitt, for a racing feature, said that he is going to make sure that the movie is diverse and make the sport look how it is supposed to look.
The F1 racer was asked if he had any desire to be on-screen, to which he said, “No, not really, I don’t really have any desire to be in front of the camera, but there may be an element in it where maybe I’ll slot in and play a small cameo, but at the moment that’s not the plan.”
Hamilton continued, “I’m more enjoying the part in the background, making sure that I’m really talking to Joe about who we’re hiring, making sure that it’s diverse, making sure that the sport looks how it’s supposed to look in the future, in terms of being more accessible.”
He continued by saying that he is actively participating in the casting of the film because he is given access to all of the audition videos and gets to make casting decisions. Hamilton claimed that watching Leonardo Di Caprio’s most recent movie had inspired him, and he hopes to enter the film he is currently working on at the prestigious festival.
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