VOD News | On 15, Mar 2025

Apple TV+ is racing to the cinema this summer with the star-studded F1 – and a new trailer gives us a first look at the film.

Directed by Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski, the film stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes. Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny 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 F1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to F1 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 F1, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

The film co-stars Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies and Kim Bodnia, and is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Plan B Entertainment, and seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton’s Dawn Apollo Films banner, and made in collaboration with Formula 1.

The film will be released in cinemas on 25th June before going on to stream on Apple TV+ at a later date. Here’s the trailer:

 

Apple races to snap up Brad Pitt F1 movie

16th January 2022

Apple Studios has got the year off to a speedy start, racing to acquire a high-profile Formula One movie starring Brad Pitt.

The film, which is directed by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, will follow a veteran retire who comes out of retirement to tutor a younger driver – and join his quest for glory as his mentee’s teammate.

With a script by Ehren Kruger (Scream 3), the untitled package is one that acquired some heated competition from Paramount, Netflix, Sony, Universal and Amazon, with Apple Studios ultimately pulling ahead in the $130 million auction to cross the acquisition line.

Pitt and Kosinski are no strangers to the track. They previously planned to making a racing film titled Go Like Hell, based on the story of Carroll Shelby – who was later played by Matt Damon in Ford v Ferrari. Pitt is also no stranger to Apple TV+, after the tech giant also acquired an untitled film starring Pitt and George Clooney from Spider-Man director Jon Watts last year.

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