\n\tFollowing a London screening of \u201cF1\u201d hosted by Apple Original films and in partnership with Variety, the cast, crew and producers of the action-packed blockbuster discussed behind-the-scenes details on the film\u2019s creation, including how the production got the real Formula One on board, the painstaking process of ensuring the sport was accurately depicted and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIf there\u2019s a theme to take away, it\u2019s the high degree of difficulty threshold that practically every single component of this film had to clear in order for the thing to exist,\u201d said producer Jeremy Kleiner on the film\u2019s highly technical production. And though the film is scripted, Kleiner pointed out that the integration of an unscripted real world event \u2014 a Grand Prix \u2014 posed a logistical challenge to the entire team. \u201cI don\u2019t know of a lot of films that were made in the middle of the Wimbledon final\u2026There was a lot of pressure. It was a do-or-die environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAdding to the pressure was the fact that the actors themselves were driving the cars, explained producer Jerry Bruckheimer: \u201cThis is the real thing. They trained for four months, first on an F4 car, F3 and then finally into our F1 body with an F2 engine.\u201d That also meant the sound team needed to swap out the engine noises, since audiences needed to hear the sounds of the F1 engines. \u201cOur fabulous sound team had to go around to nine different tracks,\u201d continued Bruckheimer. \u201cThere are four different engines on these cars and [we had to] record every one of them to make this as authentic as it has become.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tKerry Condon, who plays race director Kate McKenna, shadowed real-life Formula One strategy analyst Bernie Collins on set to aid in her own authenticity. \u201cShe was very good at not overwhelming me and just doing it scene by scene, explaining the wind tunnels, the scene,\u201d said Condon, who also noted she\u2019d \u201csteal things\u201d from Collins, making note of how she would sit and what she would do first to add to the performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tFurthermore, the film required the cooperation of the real Formula One, which Bruckheimer explained came once they showed them a reel from how they had integrated different planes on his previous action film, \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d \u201cThe last thing they need is some Hollywood company to come in there and hurt their brand,\u201d said Bruckheimer. \u201cIt really took us almost a year to get them to feel comfortable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWith the trust of the business behind them, the team focused too on depicting the sport in a way that would feel real to the drivers themselves. To aid in the process, the crew worked with Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton to ensure accuracy, enlisting his opinion on engine noises, driving strategists and other details. <\/p>\n
\n\tIn the end, it all paid off: \u201cAs proud and pleased and grateful as I was when this film was finished and really felt like we nailed it, the film went to Monaco to play for the drivers, and I think a few of us were very nervous,\u201d explained Al Nelson, one of the film\u2019s supervising sound editors. \u201cAnd I remember reaching out to Joe after the screening and saying, \u2018What are the notes?\u2019 He said they loved it. And that felt so good, to play it for Formula One drivers and for them to say, \u2018That\u2019s our movie.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a London screening of \u201cF1\u201d hosted by Apple Original films and in partnership with Variety, the cast,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[151981,49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-349565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-apple-f1-london","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}