The seven-time F1 champion talks candidly about battling through his winless streak, calling bullshit on the F1 screenplay, getting out on the track with Brad Pitt, and how he’ll know when to walk away from racing.
When you were prepping for the movie, did you ever get out on the track with Brad Pitt to check out his driving? If so, how’d he do?
Yeah. We went to a track in L.A. I took him out and sat in the passenger seat, and he drove. I used to be a driving coach when I was younger. It was a way of making some money part time whilst I was racing. So I’ve sat with God knows how many non-racing drivers. You can tell immediately the good ones, the bad ones. Straight away he was on it. You could tell he has it. He has it in his DNA. He’s just not been able to hone in on it like we have. But he’s got big potential.
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Emmy’s Nominee
The Emmys have officially announced the nominated producers for the drama, comedy, and limited series categories, revealing some exciting surprises that many viewers — and even industry professionals — might not have anticipated.
D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, best known as the minds behind “Game of Thrones,” earned their second drama series bids for the Netflix sci-fi adaptation “3 Body Problem.” Among the other 21 nominated producers for this series is “Knives Out” director Rian Johnson, who received his first nom after previously being snubbed for his directing work on “Breaking Bad” and “Poker Face.” The “3 Body Problem” producing team also includes actress Rosamund Pike as an executive producer, alongside Plan B heads Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.
Clooney and Brad Pitt’s ‘Wolfs’ Gets Sequel as Apple Pivots Theatrical Release to One-Week Limited Rollout
Apple Original Films is shaking up its release strategy as it doubles down on the upcoming action-comedy “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
Apple has made a deal with director Jon Watts to helm, write and produce a sequel for the A-list stars.
The film, which will premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, was originally slated for a wide release before hitting Apple TV+. Now, it’s set for a one-week limited theatrical release on Sept. 20, followed by an Apple TV+ debut on Sept. 27.
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GQ
It is the laugh you hear first. Heh heh heh heh heh. Unhurried. Like he’s got all the time in the world to do it. Some of the buildings here at Château Miraval, where Brad Pitt is just now tumbling out from wherever he spent the night, cup of coffee in hand, are nearly 200 years old, and the laugh rings off the stonework: heh heh heh heh heh. It rings through the terraces of olive trees. It ruffles the stone pots of lavender and rosemary. It sends the literal butterflies alighting on literal pink blossoms into the air, up towards the Provençal sky, which is the same soft blue as it was when Matisse painted it. It echoes off the lake and the vineyards and the ancient chapel and the black Mercedes convertible, top down, that is now arriving, with George Clooney at the wheel. Black sunglasses. Black polo. Loafers. When he sees Pitt, he yells: Brother! And then you hear the laugh again: heh heh heh heh heh.
Read more. GQ – The September issue (US, France, UK).
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Wolfs Was Written Specifically For George Clooney And Brad Pitt: ‘It’s Like Two Michael Claytons’
Fresh from wrapping up his MCU Spider-Man trilogy to thunderous effect in No Way Home, filmmaker Jon Watts has ploughed his success into two major new projects. Before too long, we’ll see the Star Wars series he’s helped devise, the kids-lost-in-space adventure series Skeleton Crew. But away from the franchise world, Watts has used his cache to make an original crime movie – with two of Hollywood’s biggest A-listers starring side by side. Get ready for Wolfs, in which two lone-wolf crime scene fixers realise they’ve both been hired to take on the same clean-up job. What happens, then, when Jack (aka George Clooney) and Nick (aka Brad Pitt) are forced to work in close proximity, while finding themselves increasingly out of their depth?
That’s the question that drove Watts to write his screenplay, from which he also directs. “I just wanted to know what it would be like if two of those guys met,” he tells Empire in the Joker: Folie À Deux issue. “Would they kill each other? Or would they become best friends?” The partnership of Jack and Nick is absolutely intended to play on audiences’ existing associations with Clooney and Pitt.
Read more. Check out the latest Empire (UK) issue out now.
