Formula 1 and Apple TV released the latest trailer for the upcoming Hollywood film starring Brad Pitt during the NFL Super Bowl.
The latest trailer offers a glimpse at some more of the action shots that take place in the movie, which was filmed across Grands Prix from the last two seasons.
All of the 20 drivers from that season are set to feature in the film, with George Russell and Charles Leclerc also playing a starring role at Abu Dhabi having took part in filming both on the podium and on track.
The film is set to release in June later this year, having been delayed slightly in production due to strikes that took place in Hollywood at the end of 2023.
According to F1 insider Kym Illman, the makers of the movie are employing some trick editing to get around one continuity problem that has been highlighted.
F1 film producers reskinning a lot of cars in post-production
Part of the reason why filming has taken longer than expected was due to the strikes that hit Hollywood productions at the end of 2023, when representatives of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) took strike action over a labour dispute.
This delayed filming for at least six months as those who were on the production company were also part of SAG-AFTRA, and posed a significant continuity problem.
Although the driver lineups remained the same between 2023 and 2024, many of the teams tweaked or completely changed their liveries. Alfa Romeo left the grid completely and turned into Sauber, while Mercedes, Alpine and Racing Bulls also made significant tweaks.
According to Illman, the producers are getting around that issue with a novel solution in the post-production process.
“What the movie people are doing is reskinning a lot of vision. So if there a shot of an Alpine car, they can reskin the car in post-production so that Alpine car is actually an APX GP car,” said Illman.
Lewis Hamilton had ‘critiques’ of F1 film
Lewis Hamilton has been a key consultant on the production of the movie, having worked with producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Bruckheimer has worked on films such as Top Gun: Maverick, Days of Thunder, and Pirates of the Caribbean, while the F1 film was directed by Joseph Kosinski who also worked on Top Gun and Tron: Legacy.
An early version of the film was shown to Hamilton last year, with the seven-time world champion adding a few tweaks.
Many of the changes suggested by Hamilton were done for accuracy, while Bruckheimer revealed that some have even impacted the F1 film budget.
