F1 enters Hollywood! The film is joined by the “Top Gun” team and Brad Pitt will be the male lead

F1 fans can watch big movies in the cinema!

F1 enters Hollywood, American media reported that Apple has negotiated with Brad Pitt and asked him to be the leading actor in F1 movies.

In addition to Apple, entertainment industry giants including Amazon, Disney, Netflix, Paramount and Sony are also interested in participating in the project.

The name of the film has not yet been announced. It is reported that the 58-year-old Brad Pitt will play an elderly driver who returns to the track after retirement in the film, helping a young driver grow up and chase his dream on the track again.

I have filmed racing movies before, such as “Rush” based on the duel between James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

“Le Mans 66” is based on 24 HEURES DU MANS in 2019, and it won the 2020 Oscar for Best Sound Editing and Best Editing Awards,

This is also the first motorsport movie to win an Oscar in 53 years.

Unlike previous racing movies based on real stories, this movie will tell a purely fictional story.

And the producers are also looking forward to F1 can achieve similar achievements in Hollywood, after all, F1’s influence and star effect are more obvious.

The current chief producer of the project is Jerry Bruckheimer, whose representative works include well-known movies such as “Pearl Harbor, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, and “The Rock”.

In 1990, he served as a film producer with NASCAR racing as the background.

In addition, the director is tentatively set to be Joseph Kosinski, and the screenwriter is Ehren Kruger. Both of them have participated in the shooting of blockbuster films such as “Top Gun”.

The budget of the film reached nearly 140 million U.S. dollars.

Starring Brad Pitt is also an avid racing fan. He once voiced the MotoGP documentary and started 24 HEURES DU MANS in 2016.

It is said that the 7-time world champion Hamilton will also make a cameo appearance.

Looking at the production team and the leading actors alone, we can expect an exciting high-quality F1 movie.