Brad Pitt’s F1 Flick Gets Title, Trailer, and Release Date
On a Formula One weekend when the race result could have been scripted by Hollywood, more details of Brad Pitt’s Grand Prix movie emerged.
At the British Grand Prix it was revealed that the film would be called, simply, F1, and will hit theaters in Summer 2025.
The first trailer for F1 just dropped and it gives a good indication of how director Joseph Kosinski blends footage from the real-world Formula 1 season with the fictional tale of Brad Pitt’s back-from-retirement Sonny Hayes and his protégé Joshua “Noah” Pearce played by Damon Idris.
The plot centers around underdog team Apex Grand Prix who face an uphill struggle against their established rivals. Hayes, who last raced in Formula 1 in the 1990s, is recruited by team principal Ruben (Xavier Bardem) to get Apex into the fight.
“Okay, Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston, now McLaren all have a speed on the straights,” says Hayes. “Our shot is battling in the turns. We need to build our car for combat.”
The film is set to feature cameos by many of the drivers on the current F1 grid, and team principals—notably including former Haas boss Guenther Steiner whose R-Rated rants will, no doubt, have to be edited out.
The script has been written by Ehren Kruger who penned three of the Transformers movies and Top Gun: Maverick, but even he may have struggled to come up with the drama that unfolded at the British Grand Prix. Mixed conditions in practice saw three British drivers, George Russell, Sir Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris, take the top three places in qualifying, while a rain-affected race was led by each one of them at different times. The final act saw Hamilton, on worn tires being chased down by a hard-charging Max Verstappen, but the racing knight prevailed—taking his first win since 2021 for a proper Hollywood ending.
Meanwhile, with powerhouse producer Jerry Bruckheimer behind it F1 is the Summer 2025 blockbuster we can all look forward to. If it is a big hit, there could be a problem, however. After all they can hardly call the sequel F2 can they?
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I will remain optimistic.
When Bruckheimers name is used expect goofy Hollywood story with a lot of special effects.
To be honest it sounds like the real thing going on with Andretti. I would rather watch that drama.
Keep in mind Stroker Ace was more realist than Days of Thunder. Also no move has come close to Grand Prix.
I’ll wait for a review from the Critical Drinker and others before I likely watch this at home. Don’t care to go to the expensive crappy theaters near me. I have my own home theater I prefer to watch stuff on 4K Blu-Ray.
Transformers? Top Gun ? This movie has maybe at best when it comes to Netflix written all over it. ‘Le Mans’ was kind of a documentary with a bit of drama/romance added to get people at the box office. They shot hours and hours of film that ended up on the editing room floor and used a modified GT- 40 as a chase car to get many of the shots. ( Wonder what became of that car as well as the one in THX 1138 ) ‘Rush’ was based on real events with fictionalized dialogue added and not a bad flick except not as good as ‘Cinderella Man’. Didn’t Stallone do an Indy car movie? I think so and it came and went. Sounds a lot like that. Thanks but no thanks.
Stallone’s racing movie is on a cable channel right now. Who cares? It was, as most race movies are, stupid. I watched it about halfway through, years ago. More than enough.
I hope that “The Green Helmet” shows up again, so I can see that Lister, and the Gordon Keeble, and watch Bonnier drive a kart into a swimming pool.
We will see if a guy that wrote a Top Gun sequel and Transformers cartoon movies can write something that perhaps reflects F1, and not some storyfied fantasy of what fast driving and F1 is all about, with idiot dialog. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Hopefully, it won’t be stupid. You know, with pictures of feet on two pedals smashing them to the floor as the engine roars and hands saw on the wheel. Maybe we get some proper racing footage, even if staged (please, no CGI, especially CGI crashes… ). I am thinking… it’s too much to ask, .
“Rush” left me wanting for more car stuff and character development. It was a reasonable try, but… nothing that I want to watch again. Ford Vs Ferrari was not bad, but the cars were not right (chrome wire wheels when the original Ford GTs had Borrani painted wire wheels, and not a single shot where the camera lingered over the Ford GT for our appreciation of its revolutionary design, and a Shelby a full head too short (not the worst thing, I liked Mat Damon). But, it wasn’t that bad. Also not that good, even though the director and I attended the same alma mater. “Ferrari” was somewhat OK. Good story. Some really nice cinematography. (but not enough) But still, missing the sizzle and the beauty of racing at that time. But then, that was not really the point, was it.
Today, we hope for a really good Bond sequel, perhaps a good Dead Pool and Wolverine movie. Another Top Gun? I was surprised to see the trailer for F1, and more surprised to see Brad Pitt, but here we go again. I hope it is something that I want to watch more than once.
(ps ) if you’re looking for a must watch about F-1 ‘ Grand Prix- The Killer Years ‘ is an excellent documentary. While, this weekend I believe, they happened to mention that the director of ‘Baby Driver’ had studied ‘Grand Prix’ there is a sequence that uses the song Hocus Pocus ( by Focus ) that was also used in ‘The Killer Season’ as well. I doubt by coincidence. Also for a docudrama its hard to beat ‘The Worlds Fastest Indian ‘ about Burt Munro .
Meh.