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Brad Pitt has named a legendary Hollywood histrion helium would privation to spot successful immoderate sequel to the F1 movie, and it conscionable truthful happens to beryllium idiosyncratic who 'risked being killed' connected Top Gear.
The movie simply called 'F1' has precocious been released and stars Pitt arsenic seasoned operator Sonny Hayes driving for the fictional APX GP team, an underdog squad ran by his erstwhile teammate.
Pitt's quality is partnered by Damson Idris's Joshua Pearce arsenic his young teammate.
The movie features existent footage changeable during the 2023 and 2024 F1 seasons and includes genuine F1 teams and drivers passim including Lewis Hamilton, who was besides a producer.
The movie outgo up to $300m (£220m) to marque and has truthful acold grossed conscionable nether that fig of $293.6m (£215m) astatine the container office.
Several Grand Prix venues were filmed for the movie, and began during the 2023 British Grand Prix astatine Silverstone, with Pitt and Idris appearing connected the grid during the playing of the nationalist anthem earlier the race.
The movie has mostly had favourable reviews, and its aboriginal container bureau occurrence has prompted reports that discussions implicit a imaginable sequel person already taken place. With the imaginable of a franchise connected the horizon, Pitt has gone truthful acold arsenic to sanction who helium would similar to prima successful immoderate adjacent instalment.
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise (Image: Getty)
Pitt has said helium would precise overmuch unfastened to the thought of chap Hollywood fable Tom Cruise featuring successful immoderate sequel to the F1 movie, with some men having antecedently wanted to enactment connected the Ford v Ferrari movie - which starred Matt Damon and Christian Bale.
Pitt said: "We'll springiness it a go. I'd emotion to.
"Tom and I, for a portion there, were connected Ford v Ferrari with Joe [to direct]. This was astir 10 years earlier the guys who really made it – and made it a large movie."
Of course, Cruise is nary alien to the automotive world, having appeared connected Top Gear backmost successful 2010 erstwhile the BBC amusement was fronted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.
A fashionable conception connected Top Gear backmost successful the time was the Star successful a Reasonably Priced Car, wherever celebrities drove an mundane centrifugal astir the Top Gear trial track.
Cruise appeared connected the programme connected bid 15 alongside Cameron Diaz to acceptable a clip successful Kia Cee'd.
Tom Cruise appeared connected Top Gear backmost successful 2010 (Image: BBC)
Diaz acceptable a clip of a 1:45.2, portion Cruise's clip was faster with a 1:44.2.
Cruise had a nerve-shredding infinitesimal successful the country - famously known arsenic Gambon aft the precocious histrion Sir Michael Gambon - erstwhile helium somewhat chopped the apex and went implicit the decorativeness enactment with the near 2 wheels disconnected the ground.
The startling incidental prompted Clarkson to say: "What a corner! What if we'd really killed you?!"
To which Cruise replied: "I felt the upwind travel underneath and I was feathering the throttle, reasoning 'this is similar a kite here!'."
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