When you thought that hype for Formulation 1 in America reached a fever pitch throughout the peak of Netflix’s smash hit “Drive to Survive,” you will be in for a shock come this summer time. Brad Pitt’s hotly-anticipated flick, merely titled “F1,” hits the massive display in June, and Apple TV+ is throwing some critical funds behind the film’s advertising rollout. Living proof: the movie’s second teaser trailer aired throughout the Tremendous Bowl on Sunday night time, the place a 30-second spot prices a whopping $8 million (on high of the $50 million a 12 months Apple pays to sponsor the halftime present).
The teaser trailer did not supply us a ton of clues in regards to the plot — not more than we have gleaned having seen the movie’s crew taking pictures at actual Formulation 1 races the final couple seasons. However within the absence of IMDB-worthy info, we have performed our responsibility to interrupt down this recent 32 seconds of cinema fodder, searching for no matter information we are able to glean.
Here is what we discovered.
First, the trailer
A fast plot refresher
“F1” follows Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former F1 driver who makes a shock return to the grid a number of years after struggling a horrible crash. He is recruited by the proprietor of the fictional APXGP crew, performed by Javier Bardem, who pairs him with Damson Idris’ character, rookie driver Joshua Pearce. Collectively, the 2 should work to raise the eleventh F1 crew in direction of the highest of the grid. Not that they might have had advance discover of Cadillac’s imminent arrival in Formulation 1, but it surely definitely appears like foreshadowing. Here is every part we find out about “F1” the movie, if you wish to know extra.
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F1 Film with Brad Pitt poster
Taking part in “Spot That Monitor”
The smash-cut heavy trailer is brief on identifiable particulars, however an eagle eye can see they’ve crammed in video from plenty of tracks. The primary clip exhibits Pitt throughout a race begin at Silverstone — particularly in 2023 when he and Idris filmed a number of scenes all through the race weekend. That shortly cuts to Pitt accelerating via Eau Rouge on the Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps (adopted by him mendacity down, shirtless, in his trailer, as a result of that is Brad Pitt).
After a quick clip of Pitt and actress Kerry Condon, his love curiosity, searching on the Las Vegas strip from a resort balcony, the teaser heads to Abu Dhabi for the ultimate race of the season. Pitt’s character collides with Esteban Ocon’s Alpine — although the following shot, a close-up of the entrance wing harm, seems to be taken from a scene at a separate monitor, presumably the Hungaroring.
After tensions flare within the APXGP storage (with Bardem’s holding again Pitt and Idris from preventing), a automobile goes up in flames on-track. Then it is Pitt battling Max Verstappen into flip one at Monza, earlier than the trailer cuts to Pitt flying into the gravel at Silverstone. One other smash minimize exhibits an APXGP automobile flying into the catch fence in Las Vegas, the place the crew had been taking pictures into the early hours of the morning in 2024.
The ultimate pictures within the trailer characteristic fireworks on the Daytona Worldwide Speedway (within the film, Pitt’s character raced in IMSA earlier than returning to F1), most definitely filmed throughout the Rolex 24 final January. Our closing shot sees Pitt on monitor in Las Vegas, that includes the teaser’s solely line of dialogue: “Hayes assaults across the exterior,” says a really David-Croft-sounding commentator.
The largest winners of “F1” to this point
We have seen Pitt’s Sonny Hayes get crashed into, spin out, and practically throw fists. But it surely’s the real-deal sponsors who’ve gotten some critical publicity throughout these trailers.
This newest teaser reached greater than 100 million because it aired throughout the Tremendous Bowl, and at publish time, has one other 4 million views on YouTube. The pretend Sonny Hayes’ very actual sponsor corporations — together with watchmaker IWC, cruise line MSC, house and kitchenwares model Shark/Ninja, and Expensify — all simply obtained a Tremendous Bowl advert with Brad Pitt. That is likely to be price as a lot as Lewis Hamilton in a Ferrari go well with.
The questions we have
Whereas the clips of “F1” have performed a terrific job constructing hype, loads of query marks surrounding the movie stay.
What kind of function will the true drivers play within the movie? And the way will the film will deal with continuity? Will Logan Sargeant be on the grid in “F1,” since he drove for Williams when filming started? And what about Daniel Ricciardo, too? He got here and went from the grid twice all through manufacturing?
Here is hoping the following trailer has a number of extra solutions.
