Brad Pitt Will Drive In A Real F1 Race For His Next Movie
Brad Pitt will drive a real Formula One car for his upcoming film.
Brad Pitt’s as-yet-untitled Formula One movie, which will be helmed by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, has something special in store for its veteran superstar. According to Variety, Pitt won’t just be pretending to drive one of the high-performance speed machines in the upcoming film — he’ll get the chance to try his hand at the wheel. What’s more, he’ll be driving the car on actual Formula One tracks over the course of the season.
While Brad Pitt won’t actually be driving alongside any professional Formula One drivers, he and his so-called “11th team” will follow the real professionals as they compete in the 2023 Grand Prix. He will drive in a modified F2 or F3 car — lower-performance vehicles that have their own open-wheel racing leagues. A specially-made moveable camera will be placed in Pitt’s cockpit to film him as he drives.
The film, which will be released on Apple TV, will follow a veteran driver (played by Brad Pitt) as he mentors a rookie teammate (played by Snowfall actor Damson Idris). Details about the plot are scarce, but we know that the script is being written by Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger. Kruger also wrote the screenplay for the 2017 live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, and the 2019 live-action adaptation of Disney‘s Dumbo.
This isn’t the only news to come out recently about Brad Pitt’s upcoming Formula One film. We have also learned that Better Call Saul actress Kerry Condon will appear in the movie. She will play their racing team’s technical director, the head of the team’s engineers and scientists that help design the team’s car.
Racing films are becoming something of a trend lately, and Brad Pitt’s film is far from the only one in production. In August 2023, Djimon Hounsou and Orlando Bloom will appear in Gran Turismo, based on the series of PlayStation racing games that goes by the same name. In addition, 2 Win, a film based on the 1983 Rally World Championships starring Daniel Bruhl and Riccardo Scamarcio, is also set to release this year.
Brad Pitt has been having something of a resurgence lately, staring in far more high-profile films in recent years than he had previously. In 2022, he had the leading role in Bullet Train, co-starred in Babylon, and a significant cameo appearance in The Lost City, and he appeared in both Ad Astra and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the year before the pandemic hit and shut Hollywood down. Before then, his appearances had been fewer and further between — his only role in 2018 was a minor character in Deadpool 2, and in 2017 he only appeared in a little-heard-of Netflix satire called War Machine.
Brad Pitt has another project in the works besides the Formula One film. He will also be starring alongside George Clooney in the thriller film Wolfs, directed by Jon Watts of Spider-Man: No Way Home fame. While there aren’t many details about Wolfs available, we know that Pitt and Clooney will play lone wolf fixers who are both assigned to the same job.
