Brad Pitt as well as producers Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, and Ehren Kruger, a screenwriter, were all present in Austin.
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Through Dawn Apollo Films, a production company that he recently founded with his manager, Penni Thow, Lewis Hamilton serves as producer and advisor for the undertaking. Hamilton is a part of a documentary about his career in addition to the fictional F1-based film that will begin filming next year. Both have the support of Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook attended the US GP and was given the opportunity to fly the chequered flag. Brad Pitt, the film’s star, as well as producers Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, and Ehren Kruger, a screenwriter, were all present in Austin. The last three were created by the group behind Top Gun: Maverick, a recent hit.
“I’m incredibly excited about it,” said Hamilton “I mean, what we’ve been able to so far put together team-wise is pretty incredible. I’ve got Tim Cook here this weekend, which is such an honor to have him with us, him and his team have been so supportive, with supporting my documentary, and also green lighting this movie. And then having Brad, a legend, and you’ve got Jerry, who really is an incredible legend, he did Top Gun the original. And Joe is such a huge talent as a director. I have such high hopes for it. I know we’re going to make the best racing movie that’s ever existed, both visually and we’re going to work on making sure we pull on the heartstrings of all those fans.” expressed Hamilton.
The main characters from the movie gave a presentation to the Formula one team managers in Austin on Friday. Later, they had individual meetings with each team to further discuss their involvement. So far, there has been a positive response, with teams thinking more about the sport as a whole than about any individual PR gains for themselves, and recognising the big picture of the boost that the sport is set to receive.
”I think that we don’t have to consider the position of every single team in this kind of project,” said Alfa’s Fred Vasseur when asked about the film. For me, it could be a mega step forward for F1 in general. As Netflix did a couple of years ago that for sure then it’s relative to the team, you speak about one team, or you have footage about one team. But overall, I think that it’s good for F1 and it’s a mega project, and we will all support the project for sure.” said Alfa’s Fred Vasseur about the film.
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“I was particularly impressed by the technology they showed us, They used it to do Maverick, I didn’t know that this existed, so I think they are the best out there at the moment to do something like this. As Fred said, it’s the best for F1. It’s very good, doing things like this with this calibre of people, and I think there’s no negatives, there’s just positives. So I think it’s fantastic.” said Haas’s Gunther Steiner.
“We had them here with us, Lawrence [Stroll] was involved. It went quite long, actually longer than I was anticipating, we went a bit into scheduling trouble afterwards! It was very, very positive. And we will support the project as much as we can, and we have to see how much is our involvement.” Aston Martin CEO Mike Krack confirmed that his team met with the film crew for several hours.
