Brad Pitt teases fast cars, tight turns, and deadly crashes in F1’s Big Game spot

Brad Pitt plays the youngest 61-year-old racer alive in F1.

By Matt Schimkowitz  |  February 9, 2025 | 4:08pm
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Brad Pitt teases fast cars, tight turns, and deadly crashes in F1’s Big Game spot

Today’s the Big Game, and that means all the studios will be showing off this year’s major releases to the swaths of sports fans taking shots every time Taylor Swift appears on television. But before you go and miss the ads because you’ve pulled that classic Big Game movie of spilling four layers of seven-layer dip on your pants, Warner Bros. has shared a new teaser for F1, the Formula One movie that posits a world where 62-year-old Brad Pitt seemingly had a nervous breakdown, covered himself in Zoomer-approved stick-and-poke tattoos, and returned to Formula One racing. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the movie apes the technique of his Top Gun: Maverick, strapping an A-lister to a rocket and hoping for the best.

F1’s latest teaser sells the film’s unique racing photography, with Kosinski and Pitt placing the audience in the action as he pivots around corners and crashes into walls. There are hints of the human drama of Sonny Hayes (Pitt), a retired driver pulled back into life to train an up-and-comer played by Damson Idris. Again, like Top Gun, the film’s main thrust is all the actual death definance on screen. Aside from Pitt, who has driven Formula One in the past, Kosinski shot the film during the actual Grand Prix, allowing him to capture actual racers in their element.

F1 opens in theaters and IMAX on June 27.

 
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