Brad Pitt ‘F1’ Teaser Trailer Arrives: “We Need to Build Our Car for Combat”
Damson Idris co-stars in the movie from Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
“Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston and now McLaren all have a speed on the straights. Our shot is battling it in the turns,” Pitt says in trailer, “We need to build our car for combat.”
When a woman asks him, “How am I supposed to make that safe?” He responds, “Who said anything about safe?”
Formula 1 released the trailer hours before the British Grand Prix. In the film, Pitt stars as a former driver who returns to Formula 1 alongside Damson Idris’s racer as his teammate at APXGP, a fictional team on the grid. The film was made in collaboration with ten Formula 1 teams, with scenes shot during real F1 races, as seen in the high-octane teaser.
Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia and Samson Kayo also star.Kosinski produces the feature alongside Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films; and Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment, and Lewis Hamilton under his Dawn Apollo Films banner.
The movie landed at Apple under a deal that assured the film would receive a substantial theatrical release via Warner Bros., with a window of at least 30 days, if not longer.
