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Pink Villa
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Will Tom Cruise Ever Replace Brad Pitt in F1? Director Says 'We'd Have Had a Crash' With Mission Impossible Star
If Tom Cruise had taken the lead role in the upcoming racing film F1, the production would have been a lot more intense, according to director Joseph Kosinski. In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Kosinski said Cruise's approach to filming action scenes would have made the set environment more nerve-wracking compared to Brad Pitt's style. 'Tom always pushes it to the limit, but at the same time is super capable and very skilled,' Kosinski said. The F1 director and producer Jerry Bruckheimer began working on the Pitt-led racing film during post-production on Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise's blockbuster hit that grossed USD 1.4 billion. The idea of Cruise leading F1 was floated during this time, but it didn't go forward. Reflecting on that possibility, Kosinski said, 'They both have the natural talent for driving. But yeah, I could see Tom maybe scaring us a little bit more.' Many crew members on F1 had previously worked with Cruise on Mission: Impossible films, and they know how far he's willing to go. Graham Kelly, the action-vehicle supervisor, had a strong opinion. 'We'd have had a crash,' he joked when asked about Tom Cruise starring in F1 instead of Brad Pitt. 'Tom pushes it to the limit. I mean, really to the limit. That terrifies me,' Kelly said. 'I've done loads of Mission: Impossibles with Tom, and it's the most stressful experience for someone like me building cars for him, doing stunts with him.' In contrast, Kelly said Pitt is more aware of his limits. He added that Brad listens and he knows his abilities and believes he'd be the first to say that he is not going to do it. Before Top Gun: Maverick, Kosinski was developing a racing film similar to Ford v Ferrari, with both Cruise and Pitt interested. However, the studio passed on the project due to the high budget. That film was eventually made by James Mangold and starred Christian Bale and Matt Damon. Cruise is currently in theaters with Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, which opened to USD 200 million globally. Pitt's F1 is scheduled to hit theaters on June 27. With Pitt behind the wheel, the team says they can expect a smoother ride, at least behind the scenes.
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Wire
By Popular Demand, Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX ® Expand Their Fan-First Premiere Screenings of Apple Original Films' Summer Event Feature F1 ® The Movie to 400 IMAX Theaters Worldwide
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Start your engines! Due to overwhelming popularity, with sold-out screenings in 25 markets across the globe, Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX are expanding their Fan-First Premiere Screenings of Apple Original Films' F1 ® The Movie to 400 IMAX locations worldwide. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, May 21, for available IMAX-exclusive June 23 screenings—one night only at 7:00 p.m. local time—as well as for all available showtimes of the film when it starts roaring into theaters later that week. Tickets for the June 23 Fan-First Premiere Screenings in IMAX can be found HERE. Check local theater listings for available showtimes on June 25 and beyond and don't miss the most authentic racing film of all time, filmed for IMAX: F1 ® The Movie. From Apple Original Films and the filmmakers from Top Gun: Maverick comes the high-octane, action-packed feature film F1 ® The Movie, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, seven-time FORMULA 1 ® world champion Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman. Dubbed 'the greatest that never was,' Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1's most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he's a nomadic racer-for-hire when he's approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He'll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny's past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone. F1 ® The Movie also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem, and was shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competed against the titans of the sport. Kosinski directs from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, story by Kosinski & Kruger. The film is executive produced by Daniel Lupi. Collaborating with Kosinski behind the scenes are his creative team, including director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designers Mark Tildesley and Ben Munro, editor Stephen Mirrione, costume designer Julian Day, casting director Lucy Bevan and composer Hans Zimmer. Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. Pictures Present A Monolith Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer / Plan B Entertainment / Dawn Apollo Films Production, A Joseph Kosinski Film, F1 ® The Movie, distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theaters and IMAX nationwide on June 27, 2025 and internationally beginning 25 June 2025.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
By Popular Demand, Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX® Expand Their Fan-First Premiere Screenings of Apple Original Films' Summer Event Feature F1® The Movie to 400 IMAX Theaters Worldwide
Tickets On Sale TOMORROW 5/21 for Available Expanded Fan-First Premieres Exclusively in IMAX now to be held in 400 IMAX Theaters on 6/23, Ahead of the Film's Release Tickets On Sale TOMORROW 5/21 for Available General Showtimes Worldwide—Don't miss the Cinematic Event of the Summer! BURBANK, Calif., May 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Start your engines! Due to overwhelming popularity, with sold-out screenings in 25 markets across the globe, Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX are expanding their Fan-First Premiere Screenings of Apple Original Films' F1® The Movie to 400 IMAX locations worldwide. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, May 21, for available IMAX-exclusive June 23 screenings—one night only at 7:00 p.m. local time—as well as for all available showtimes of the film when it starts roaring into theaters later that week. Tickets for the June 23 Fan-First Premiere Screenings in IMAX can be found HERE. Check local theater listings for available showtimes on June 25 and beyond and don't miss the most authentic racing film of all time, filmed for IMAX: F1® The Movie. From Apple Original Films and the filmmakers from Top Gun: Maverick comes the high-octane, action-packed feature film F1® The Movie, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, seven-time FORMULA 1® world champion Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman. Dubbed "the greatest that never was," Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1's most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he's a nomadic racer-for-hire when he's approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He'll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny's past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone. F1® The Movie also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem, and was shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competed against the titans of the sport. Kosinski directs from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, story by Kosinski & Kruger. The film is executive produced by Daniel Lupi. Collaborating with Kosinski behind the scenes are his creative team, including director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designers Mark Tildesley and Ben Munro, editor Stephen Mirrione, costume designer Julian Day, casting director Lucy Bevan and composer Hans Zimmer. Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. Pictures Present A Monolith Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer / Plan B Entertainment / Dawn Apollo Films Production, A Joseph Kosinski Film, F1® The Movie, distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theaters and IMAX nationwide on June 27, 2025 and internationally beginning 25 June 2025. View source version on Contacts For additional media inquiries, please contact: Chelsey Summey Sign in to access your portfolio
News.com.au
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Top Gun: Maverick director to helm new Miami Vice movie
The film drama will be based on the iconic 1980s NBC TV series about undercover cops taking down drug dealers, The Hollywood Reporter reports. A cast has yet to be announced. Kosinski is fresh from making the Brad Pitt-starring Formula One movie F1. He's expected next to reteam with F1 producer Jerry Bruckheimer for an untitled UFO project at Apple, and Miami Vice is next in line on his to-do list after that. Kosinski and Bruckheimer also teamed on Top Gun: Maverick.
Japan Today
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Today
‘Top Gun: Maverick' filmmakers drive into Formula One, with Brad Pitt and Lewis Hamilton
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Damson Idris, left, and Brad Pitt in a scene from "F1." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) By LINDSEY BAHR 'Top Gun: Maverick' filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to Formula One like many Americans: 'Drive to Survive.' In that popular Netflix series, he saw the potential for a cinematic event, full of immersive thrills, the high stakes of the competitive racing world and the idea that your teammate could be your greatest rival. 'I don't think there's any other sport that's quite like that,' Kosinski said. 'It's ripe for drama.' The movies have loved car racing since their earliest days, and the popularity of F1 has exploded in recent years. Giving it the 'Top Gun' treatment made sense. But it would take nearly four years for that dream to become 'F1,' which is speeding into movie theaters on June 27. It was a complex operation that would involve unprecedented coordination with the league, groundbreaking innovation in camera technology, and letting one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Brad Pitt, drive a real race car at 180 miles an hour on film. Many, many times. Hollywood, it turned out, was a little easier to convince to make the film than the league. By the time Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer approached them, Pitt had already agreed to star and they'd decided to go with Apple to help make the movie at the level they needed, with the guarantee of a robust theatrical release (which Warner Bros. is handling). Then came the Formula One meeting. 'When you come in, the first thing they think is you're going to make them look bad,' Bruckheimer said. 'I went through this with when I went to the Navy the first time on 'Top Gun.'' There were many concerns: About anything going wrong, accidents, and the question of the villain. But, the filmmakers explained, this story wasn't about a villain. It's a competition between two drivers — a younger driver (Damson Idris) and an older driver (Pitt) trying to make him better. Bruckheimer said it took almost a year to get the league on board, and then they had to go around to the individual teams to explain it to them as well. But once everyone bought in, they committed and opened their world to the filmmakers. 'The amount of, let's say, conversations regarding things not related to the actual filmmaking has been massive just from a coordination point of view,' Kosinski said. 'But there's no way we could have made this film without that partnership with Formula One.' Among the things they got to do: Build a garage at the Grand Prix for their fictional team; Drive on the track during Grand Prix weekends in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators; Put their Formula One cars on the track with the film's cars (and drivers); Have Pitt and Idris stand at the end of the national anthem in both Silverstone and Abu Dhabi; And sit in on drivers meetings and technical briefings. 'It was full-on integration of these two worlds coming together,' Kosinski said. 'There's no way the film could have happened or look like it does without that partnership. I think you'll see the result of that on screen because you couldn't recreate what we were able to capture by doing it for real.' In true 'Top Gun' spirit, part of 'doing it for real' meant trying to create the experience in the driver seat for the audience. Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who was involved in the film from the earliest days, told Kosinski that he'd never seen a film that had really captured what it felt like to be in one of those cars. 'These Formula One cars, they deal in grams,' Kosinski said. 'Adding 100 pounds of camera equipment works against the very thing you're trying to capture. It became a technical engineering project for a year to figure out how to get very tiny cameras that are IMAX quality onto one of these cars.' During 'Top Gun: Maverick,' they had six Sony cameras inside the cockpit. Here, engineers were able to slim those down to about a quarter of the size (he estimates a 10x10 cm cube). Panavision also developed a remote control that allowed director of photography Claudio Miranda to pivot the cameras left and right, which they didn't have on 'Maverick." They had 15 camera mounts built into the cars and were able to run up to four at a time keeping the weight penalty to a minimum, and the close-ups real. 'Every time you see Brad or Damson's face, they're really driving that car,' Kosinski said. 'It's not being driven for them.' And once it was go-time on the tracks, it was a race against the clock. 'It was a technical feat and an organizational feat,' Bruckheimer said. 'You get limited access and we'd get in there between some of their qualifying laps and have eight minutes to get on the track and off the track. It's precision, you can't be at nine minutes.' When Hamilton first saw some of their racing footage cut together, Kosinski got a confidence boost. 'He smiled and said, 'It looks fast,'' Kosinski said. 'I was like, 'Oh, thank God.' If Lewis says that we're in a good place.' 'This movie needed an icon kind of at the center of it,' Kosinski said. 'It's a big, complicated, expensive film. And I needed one of our, you know, top, top movie stars.' Kosinski knew Pitt liked cars. About a decade ago he, Tom Cruise and Pitt actually developed a car movie that never came to be. Plus, he said, 'I just felt like it was a role that I always wanted to see him play.' The character is fictional driver named Sonny Hayes who was 'the greatest who never was.' A phenomenon in the 1990s, he was destined to be the next world champion before an accident at a Grand Prix ends his Formula One career. 'Now he drives in every type of racing league you could imagine, but not Formula 1,' Kosinski said, from Le Mans to swamp trucks. 'He likes to challenge himself to a new racing league and master it, but then he walks away.' The audience meets him driving the midnight shift at the Daytona 24 hour race where he meets his old teammate and now Formula One team owner (Javier Bardem) who asks him to come back to help them win one race to save them from being sold. 'It's a story about a last place team, a group of underdogs, and Sonny Hayes in his later years having one more chance to do something he was never able to, which is win a race in F1,' Kosinski said. After the pitch, they went to the racetrack with Hamilton and Pitt 'was hooked.' Pitt trained for three months before cameras started rolling to get used to the physical demands of the precision vehicles. He and his co-star really drove the cars at speeds up to 180 mph, and sometimes in front of a couple hundred thousand people. 'The happiest day was when they said, 'OK, it's a wrap on driving,' and he (Brad) climbed out of the car,' Bruckheimer said. 'That was the best day for me because it is dangerous, it really is.' The film, everyone has acknowledged, was enormously expensive. They had the advantage of advertising on the cars, which helped offset some of the costs, but the operation was akin to building a real F1 team, Bruckheimer said. They built six cars, which they transported all around the world along with production. 'It's like an army exercise moving vast groups of people and machinery around the world,' Bruckheimer said. But it was much less than the $300 million figure going around, both Kosinski and Bruckheimer said. 'It's expensive, don't get me wrong. It's an expensive movie. But it was substantially lower than that number,' Bruckheimer said. 'Hollywood is a very competitive place, and our friends sometimes inflate our budgets to make them look better.' The biggest question is whether audiences will turn out in blockbuster numbers. So far, test scores have been very high across genders. And they promise you don't need to be an expert or even a fan of the sport to enjoy the film, which will teach you everything you need to know. 'It's emotional, it's exciting, it has humor. It's got great music with a Hans Zimmer score and a bunch of phenomenal artists,' Bruckheimer said. 'We hope it's a perfect summer movie." © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
