Tension on the racetrack with Brad Pitt in the blockbuster 'F1'

Star Brad Pitt returns to the silver screen with impressive performances in the blockbuster 'F1'.

It took nearly four years for the F1 dream to become a reality, hitting theaters worldwide on June 27, including Vietnam. Top Gun: Maverick filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to F1 like many other Americans: "Driving to survive." And Brad Pitt did exactly that in the movie.

Damson Idris (Joshua, left) and star Brad Pitt (Sonny Hayes) in the F1 blockbuster

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The world's number one race, F1 (Formula 1), is a complex operation that requires the coordination of many people from technical staff, team management to the drivers. And groundbreaking innovations in filming technology have allowed one of the world's biggest movie stars - Brad Pitt - to drive a real race car at speeds of 290 km/h on film.

Putting Brad Pitt in a Formula 1 car

When Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer approached him, Brad Pitt immediately agreed to star. They decided to work with Apple to make the blockbuster as close to reality as possible.

The filmmakers confirmed that the story on the film is not about a villain. It is a competition between Joshua - a younger racer (played by Damson Idris) and the older racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) who tries to support Joshua to drive better.

"We couldn't have made this film without the cooperation of Formula One – F1," Kosinski revealed. The crew built a garage for the fictional racing team; drove on the track during Grand Prix weekends in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators; brought Formula 1 cars onto the track along with the cars and drivers in the film...

F1 movie trailer

In the spirit of Top Gun , part of F1 is about “making it real” – trying to recreate the experience of being in the driver’s seat for the audience. Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton was involved with the film from the very beginning, telling Kosinski that he had never seen a film that truly captured the feeling of being in a race car.

"These Formula 1 cars are measured in grams. Adding 50 kg of camera equipment to the car is impossible. The engineering solution was established for a year to find a way to put very small IMAX quality cameras into the race car," Kosinski revealed.

In Top Gun: Maverick , the crew installed six Sony cameras inside the cockpit of a fighter jet. In F1 , engineers put tiny cameras, about 10x10 cm in size, into race cars. Panavision also developed a remote control system that allowed director of photography Claudio Miranda to pan the cameras left and right, something they didn't have in Top Gun: Maverick .

The engineering team installed 15 camera mounts on the race car, which can hold up to four cameras at a time, helping to reduce weight and allow for realistic close-ups.

“Every time you see Brad Pitt or Damson’s face, they’re actually driving that car,” says Kosinski. “It’s a feat of engineering and organization,” Bruckheimer adds.

“Hamilton smiled and said, ‘That looks fast.’ I thought, ‘Oh, thank God.’ If Lewis Hamilton says so, then we’re doing well,” Kosinski said.

" F1 needs an icon at the heart of the story. It's a big, complicated and expensive movie. We needed one of the top movie stars," the director confessed.

F1 is filmed in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators

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Kosinski knew Brad Pitt loved cars. About a decade ago, Kosinski, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt had planned to make a car movie, but it never happened. "I want to do something with Pitt," the director said.

“This is a story about a team at the bottom of the table – a team of underdogs – and Sonny Hayes in his later years getting another chance to do something he never got to do, which is win an F1 race,” Kosinski added.

The crew arrived at the track with Hamilton and Brad Pitt was "hooked". He trained for three months before cameras started rolling to get used to the complex requirements. Pitt and his co-stars actually drove the cars at speeds of up to 290 km/h, in front of hundreds of thousands of people.

"The happiest day was when Brad Pitt climbed out of the car and said, 'That's it.' That was the best day for me because everything was really dangerous," Bruckheimer recalled.

F1 cost more than $200 million to produce. "It's an expensive movie, but still significantly less than other blockbusters. F1 is emotional, exciting, funny, hopefully the perfect summer movie," Bruckheimer said.

Variety veteran Jazz Tangcay says she's "obsessed" with F1 , with its stunning visuals, stunning sound, and breathtaking action sequences. Variety 's Clayton Davis says: "The summer blockbuster is here." TheWrap says: " F1 is truly top-notch. It's one of the coolest, most entertaining movies you'll ever see."

Meanwhile, Brad Pitt told reporters: "I go to the gym regularly. Then I take a cold shower to recover. I'm a little regretful because if I had tried a little harder, I would have driven at 320 km/h."

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