Formula 1 and Apple Original Films announced on Tuesday that the highly-anticipated feature film starring Brad Pitt will race into movie theatres on June 25, 2025, internationally and June 27, 2025, in North America.
The film began production in 2023 in collaboration with F1, race promoters and the FIA and continues this year with the cast and crew set to shoot at the 2024 British and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix.
It stars Pitt as an ex-F1 racer coaxed out of retirement following a major crash in the 1990s to race alongside rookie Joshua Pierce- portrayed by actor Damson Idris (Black Mirror, Snowfall) – at APXGP, a down-on-its-luck team whose team owner is portrayed by the Academy Award-winning Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall).
Both Pitt and Idris have done the bulk of the driving in the APXGP F1 car, which is in fact a Formula 2 chassis dressed in an F1-style body and the duo famously suited up alongside the 20 real-life Grand Prix drivers on the grid at last year’s British GP.
Pitt and co also filmed sequences with a Porsche 911 GTD machine at this year’s Daytona 24 Hours, hinting this is where the film will find Pitt’s character Sonny Hayes at the start of the film’s story.
Further on-track action was filmed at Silverstone shortly after the Monaco GP and the production was also present in Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi last year.
Helping bring F1 to the big screen is Director Joseph Kosinski, who is well versed in crafting high-octane action having helmed Top Gun: Maverick.
Legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer is also behind the project, produced in collaboration with Lewis Hamilton’s production company Dawn Apollo Films.
The scope of this film cannot be understated with the access granted to the production keyed at making this movie as close to the real F1 product as possible.
To help immerse viewers, the movie’s release will be offered in standard cinema format and IMAX, which brings together the highest resolution cameras and state-of-the-art projectors to give the audience the largest and crispest picture frame in theatres.
The film is further complimented by a talented ensemble cast, including Academy Award-nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Emmy Award-winner and Golden Globe Award nominee Tobias Menzies (The Crown), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso), Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve, The Witcher) and Samson Kayo (Our Flag Means Death).
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