Brad Pitt has done many things in life. It has been detective (Seven), soap seller (The fight club), mythological general (Troy) and compulsive gallant (all of them). Since this week, he is also a formula pilot 1. His new movie is called F1: The Movieand premiered on Friday with drum redouble, long lights and the tacit blessing of. In the project, which started almost three years ago, there are cars, circuits and real pilots, in addition to the latest generation cameras. All this with the intention of ensuring that the resources of the great Hollywood blockbusters contribute to giving the last petare in terms of regularity. With the promotion that all the parties involved have carried out, there are few who have doubts that the first objective has already been achieved. Another thing will be what criticism says.
Apparently, the beginning must be sought in a conversation between Lewis Hamilton and Apple’s producers. The British wanted to boost a film that the seams were not seen. No tires squeaking in the grass or changes in the wrong time, of those who burn the eyes of the minimally understood. Something serious or, at least, worthy enough not to have to hide for the paddock. Hamilton has not only served as an advisor, but also as a producer, in addition to participating in the script and contributing to the choice of Damson Idris as one of the main protagonists.
Pitt took the role with the rigor that actors usually apply when it comes to doing something dangerous and glamorous at the same time. At 61, he trained for months, rolled in Silverstone, in Spa, in Hungaroring, and rolled speeds that surely bother his representative on more than one occasion. At the wheel of a F2 prototype disguised as F1, Oklahoma actor mixed with the members of the grill in real situations. In the workshops, the looks of the team technicians used to observe the scenes in which Pitt was sneaking with the usual mixture of professional indifference and morbid curiosity.
: The old lion returns, the pupil learns, and the team – fiction, by the way – the glory is played in the last turns. There is drama, in addition to a kind of nostalgia built on the epic of risk. It is predictable, but also effective. The director, Joseph Kosinski, has already taken Tom Cruise to take off in Top Gun: Maverick. His obsession, this time, has been that the spectator understands how G forces act, despite being apoltronized in a armchair. To do this, it has put cameras inside the helmets, on the ailerons and even in the hands of the mechanics.
The preview took place a couple of weeks ago in New York, with most of the present grill – there were no Max Verstappen or Fernando Alonso. “I think that if I could see this movie in my childhood, I would surely have inspired me more to try to be a pilot. I think it will show our sport in another way. This movie, just like Drive to Survive “The Netflix series,” will make F1 reach many more people, ”says Hamilton, who has worked side by side with Pitt.
“Both Brad and the whole team mixed with us at all times. And I was impressed how well the dynamics of F1 understood. They managed to integrate into the great awards without disturbing,” Norris is convenient, which this Saturday, in Austria, a pole of cinema, the third of the course for him and the clearest, with more than half a second margin in his favor. , his partner in McLaren, in the fight for the title, will start at the Red Bull Ring (3:00 p.m., Dazn), next to Charles Leclerc, while Piastri will do the third. Verstappen will be the seventh; Alonso, the eleventh and Carlos Sainz, the penultimate. “For F1 fans, there will surely be too much in the style of Hollywood. But the quality of the images they have achieved is insane,” said Sainz, after attending a special pass. One of the most skilled to take advantage of the pull has been Zak Brown, director of McLaren. The executive, marketing specialist, offered Pitt the possibility of conducting the 2023 papaya racing car (MCL60) in a private test in Austin, from which he will take out all the juice he can.
