{"id":45096,"date":"2025-08-05T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45096\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:33:11","slug":"brad-pitt-damson-idris-play-drivers-in-formula-one-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45096\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt, Damson Idris Play Drivers in Formula One Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBrad Pitt<\/a> gets a second chance behind the wheel in the full trailer for F1<\/a> \u2014 and yes, the star actually does his own driving for the racing movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Apple<\/a> film from director Joseph Kosinski<\/a> hits theaters and IMAX from Warner Bros.<\/a> on June 25. Damson Idris<\/a>, Kerry Condon<\/a>, Tobias Menzies and Javier Bardem<\/a> round out the cast. F1 features Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former Formula One racer who was forced into early retirement until a team owner (Bardem) asks him to return to the sport and help mentor a rookie driver (Idris).<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a press event to debut the trailer, which can be seen below, Kosinski explained that he connected with racing legends Lewis Hamilton, who is a producer on the film, and Toto Wolff to help capture the speed associated with the sport.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was actually Toto who came up with the idea of, rather than making a movie car fast enough to achieve these speeds, he said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you take a real race car and then work the cameras that you need into that?’\u201d Kosinski said. \u201cSo every time you see Brad or Damson driving in this movie, they\u2019re driving on their own in one of these real race cars on a real F1 track.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKosinski praised his star for an innate sense of how to handle the vehicle. \u201cBrad had a lot of just natural ability right from the start, and I don\u2019t know where he got that or if he was born with it, and he rides motorcycles, which I think has something to do with it,\u201d the filmmaker shared. \u201cBut he\u2019s just a very talented, naturally gifted driver, which for Lewis after that first meeting gave him a lot of confidence that we might have a shot at pulling this off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film\u2019s team worked to improve the cameras that were used to capture flight footage for Kosinski\u2019s most recent film, Top Gun: Maverick. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe big challenge was just the camera system itself,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to develop a brand new camera system taking everything we learned on Top Gun: Maverick and pushing it much further. You can\u2019t put 60 pounds of gear onto a race car and expect it\u2019s going to perform the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the trailer, Pitt\u2019s character expresses his love for racing. \u201cIf the last thing I do is drive that car, I will take that life, man,\u201d the actor says as Sonny. \u201cA thousand times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKosinski helmed the film from a script by Ehren Kruger, who also worked on\u00a0Top Gun: Maverick. Pitt, Kosinski, Hamilton, Jerry Bruckheimer, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman serve as producers for\u00a0F1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt gets a second chance behind the wheel in the full trailer for F1 \u2014 and yes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[304,8077,25468,1687,372,6537,25632,25633,25634,101,7021,56,54,55,18199],"class_list":["post-45096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-apple","tag-brad-pitt","tag-damson-idris","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-javier-bardem","tag-joseph-kosinski","tag-kerry-condon","tag-sports","tag-trailers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}