Formula 1 will be the backdrop of another Hollywood blockbuster next year with an upcoming prequel to “Ocean’s Eleven” set to feature a heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The world championship series was the subject of a blockbuster movie in 2025 — “F1,” starring Brad Pitt and co-produced by seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n The movie made over $633 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing racing movie of all time.<\/p>\n Plans for a sequel are currently in the works.<\/p>\n F1 will continue to centre prominently going forward and in 2027 the championship’s crown jewel event — the famous street race around the narrow streets lining the Monte Carlo harbour — will be front and centre in an upcoming Warner Bros. project.<\/p>\n The currently untitled movie will be a prequel to the movie franchise started by Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 “Ocean’s Eleven”, which starred George Clooney as suave heist expert Danny Ocean.<\/p>\n The new movie will feature Margot Robbie, who teased the storyline during a sizzle reel for Warner Bros. 2027 slate of upcoming movies.<\/p>\n – Lewis Hamilton’s epic Sunday as ‘F1’ movie claims Oscar after Chinese GP podium<\/a> “Before Danny Ocean ever stepped foot in Vegas, two masterminds taught him everything he knows — his parents,” Robbie said. “You’ll see them in their prime, and in our new movie, pulling off an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.”<\/p>\n Monaco’s iconic race started in 1929 and was the second round of the inaugural Formula 1 world championship in 1950.<\/p>\n From 1955 onwards it has been a mainstay on the F1 schedule, hosting every year since bar the 2020 edition, which was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen how prominent the 1962 edition is in the movie.<\/p>\n
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