Top Gun, but make it Formula 1: director Joseph Kosinski has the need for speed (again).
Fresh off the box-office success of the director’s legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which came out a couple weeks ago, and less than two weeks before his Netflix film Spiderhead debuts on the streaming platform, it was announced Tuesday (June 7) that Apple TV had picked up Kosinski’s next project: a previously rumored Formula 1 film starring Brad Pitt.
Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of everything from Days of Thunder to Pirates of the Caribbean to both Top Gun films to The Rock, and seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton will be producers.
Listed as “Untitled Formula One/Joseph Kosinski Project” on IMDb and simply as “F1” on Letterboxd, we don’t have much to go on yet outside of a vague plot, which Letterboxd lists as the following:
“Brad Pitt stars as a veteran driver who comes out of retirement to coach a young racer and achieve his last shot at glory.”
Kosinski directed the 2010 Tron reboot Tron: Legacy, which starred Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy and others, as well as the 2013 sci-fi film Oblivion. The latter featured Tom Cruise in the lead role, and though both were box-office successes, each was met with lukewarm critical receptions.
It was 2017 when Kosinski’s first critically successful film was released in Only the Brave, documenting the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire and the firefighter team of Granite Mountain Hotshots who fought it. Though a box-office bomb, the movie was critically acclaimed and starred Bridges, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly and more amongst an ensemble cast. I personally can’t recommend it enough; it’s a fantastic film and absolutely rips your heart out in the last 15 minutes.
Kosinski also directed a short film, titled The Dig, in 2017.
As for his most recently released turn in the…
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