
Brad Pitt battles on the track in teaser trailer for ‘F1’
Academy Award winner and Hollywood megastar Brad Pitt is ready to take to the grid in what will be 2025’s biggest blockbuster with the high-octane sports drama F1, which will take audiences right into the fray of motorsports competition unlike they’ve ever been before.
Following on from its debut poster, a first-look teaser trailer has arrived and showcases the action of F1, and damn, does this look like one hell of a rush! Brad Pitt looks ultra cool as the film’s central character, Sonny Hayes, a one-time Formula 1 great and full-on burnout who gets a shot at redemption and a chance to prove himself on the track, and it’s full-on war from there.
Watch the teaser trailer below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) on the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).
This first-look footage places audiences right in action. Filmmaker Joseph Kosinski mounted 15 separate cameras to the body of the film’s cars, which were built in partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team. The cars were built off the chassis of a Formula 2 car and then designed to look like F1 cars. This has allowed the driving to take place on track, with the rig capturing everything, and both Brad Pitt and Damsen Idris were trained for three months to drive in both Formula 3 and Formula 2 before hitting the track.
Alongside the authenticity of the world on the track, F1 also has a stacked cast featuring the likes of Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies and Academy Award winner Javier Bardem, who portrays the owner of the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP). With such talent both in front of and behind the camera, you know this will be an incredible watch. Kosinski also finds his stride between the action on the track and the film’s heavy drama; plenty of emotion is present in this picture.
The film has been made in collaboration with Formula 1, specifically with the full support of Seven-Time World Champion Lewis Hamilton (who also serves as a producer on the project), Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team Principal Toto Wolff, and the larger Formula 1 organisation, which has given them unique access to the paddock and the track. The trailer even showcases cameo appearances from the likes of Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz Jr., Sergio Pérez, and, in a scene-stealing moment, Guenther Steiner!
The first-look teaser trailer arrived during the 2024 British Grand Prix, which saw Hamilton win for the ninth time and had Pitt film additional scenes earlier in the week.
This teaser is only a first look at what is to come, but it looks damn impressive, and we think audiences will be in for a hell of a rush when F1 arrives in cinemas on June 25, 2025.
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