Apple Lands Formula One Racing Feature Starring Brad Pitt

Apple has landed a sought after Formula One racing feature from Joseph Kosinski, Plan B Entertainment and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

Academy Award winner Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”) is set to star in the film with Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”) set to direct. Pitt will play a driver who comes out of retirement to compete alongside a rookie driver against the titans of the sport.

The film is produced by Bruckheimer and Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Kosinski, Mercedes driver and seven-time Formula One champion Hamilton, and Plan B Entertainment. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as executive producer. Ehren Kruger (“Top Gun: Maverick”) writes the screenplay.


This marks Apple Studios’ second feature with Pitt and Plan B Entertainment, who are partnering, along with George Clooney’s Smokehouse, on the Jon Watts-directed untitled film starring Pitt and Clooney.

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