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The filmmakers who putTom Cruisein a fighter jet are placingBrad Pittbehind the wheel of a race car for his next movie.
On Thursday,Top Gun: MaverickdirectorJoseph Kosinskiand producerJerry Bruckheimerappeared atF1 Accelerate Summitin Miami to discuss their upcoming untitled Apple Studios movie. During the panel, the pair revealed they are creating an actual team to race during theBritish Grand Prixon July 9 as part of production for the film, according to moderatorWill Buxton.
“Their F1 movie sounds incredible,” Buxton wrote onTwitterThursday after the panel. “They’re creating an 11th team and filming on track and on event from Silverstone to the end of the year.”
According to Buxton, Kosinski and Bruckheimer are utilizing lessons learned fromTop Gun: Maverick— in which the filmmakerscreated a camera that could be attached to jets— “to develop the smallest moveable 6k camera ever designed to take the viewer into the cockpit.”
“A cockpit in which their stars will actually drive. That’s right,” the moderator wrote in a Twitter thread. “Brad Pittdriving an F1 car from Silverstone onwards.”
Representatives for Apple Studios did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Friday regarding production plans for the movie.
The moderator added that actors on the movie are already training for the project, while real-life F1 legendLewis Hamiltonis working as a producer on the film and working to “ensure it’s the most accurate racing film ever made.”
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Sports Illustratedpreviously reported in April that the film will shoot sequences at the race at Silverstone Circuit in the U.K. in July.
Brad Pitt, Tim Cook and Lewis Hamilton.Best Image / BACKGRID
“It will be the first movie where they will be within the racing event,” F1 Stefano Domenicali said of the upcoming production, according toSI. “It will be quite invasive in terms of production, but it will be another way of showing that F1 never stops.”
On Friday,Kerry Condon(The Banshees of Inisherin) was added to the cast of the movie, per reports. The film follows a retired F1 driver (Pitt) who returns to the Formula 1 ranks to mentor a younger driver and try for a championship.
source: people.com
