*The fast paced, adrenaline driven, action packed “F1” (FORMULA 1) from Warner Bros. epitomizes the ultimate in risk taking.
Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was F1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident sidetracked his career.
Not one to stand down, thirty years later the nomadic racer-for-hire is made an offer.
He is approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse.
Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to “F1 The Movie” for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He will drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him.
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Pitt is the onscreen risk taker in “F1,” but in real life he is also the consummate risk taker.
His Plan B Entertainment company was behind “Nickel Boys,” “Selma,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Moonlight,” “Mickey 17,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” just to name a few.
Plan B was involved with, not surprisingly, “Bob Marley: One Love.”
In “Meet Joe Black,” Pitt’s Patois was perfect when he consoled Lois Kelly-Miller.
The late Kelly-Miller has a story of her own, surviving a torpedo attack in the late 1940s.
“F1,” an Apple Original Film produced by Plan B, Monolith Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Dawn Apollo Films, enables viewers to experience vicariously what the racers are feeling.
The cylinders continue to turn on and off the track. Personal relationships explode whether they are in the boardroom or bedroom. And mama Pearce (Sarah Niles) takes no prisoners.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, “F1 The Movie” also stars Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, Samson Kayo, Abdul Salis, and Phillip Allen Hall III.
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