The F1 season has been run and won, but perhaps no one was happier to be trackside for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix than Brad Pitt.
The Hollywood star has been a fixture of the F1 paddock for the last 18 months since he took the F1 world by surprise by popping up with his own garage at last year’s British Grand Prix.
Pitt and his co-star Damon Idris were the talk of Silverstone that weekend and have been at several race weekends this year filming their racing movie, simply titled F1.
It’s a collaboration between F1 and Apple TV, with the plot centred around a former driver who comes out of retirement to help mentor a younger driver and try win a championship.
Fincher’s Iconic Neo-Noir Is Getting an IMAX Re-Release
David Fincher fans will get a chance to see one of his best in the coming months. His 1995 noir thriller, Se7en, is set to hit IMAX in January. Fincher’s early collaboration with Brad Pitt features the actor as David Mills, a cop new to a crime-ridden city under a perpetually overcast sky. Paired up with a jaded veteran detective, William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), the two have to stop the brutal killings of a serial killer inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins. Pitt would later star in Fincher’s cult classic film, Fight Club, only a few years later, but Se7en was one of his first critical successes and has gone on to be remembered in its own right. While the story is undoubtedly bleak, it was a masterclass in the detective genre, marking Fincher as a filmmaker to watch out for.
‘Adolescence’: First Look At Netflix’s Stephen Graham Crime Drama
The four-part series — from Graham and his regular collaborators Jack Thorne Philip Barantini — is notable for each episode being shot in one continuous take as the action unfolds in real time. It’s due to launch on Netflix next year and counts Brad Pitt among its exec producers.
Adolescence will mark a first role for Owen Cooper, who plays a 13-year-old teenage boy who is arrested for the murder of a girl at his school. Graham (Boiling Point) plays his father and ‘appropriate’ adult, while Walters (Top Boy) plays a detective inspector and Soherty (The Crown) a clinical psychologist assigned to the case.
‘Wolfs 2’ Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt Canceled at Apple
“Wolfs 2,” the sequel to the action comedy from “Spider-Man: No Way Home” director Jon Watts that starred Brad Pitt and George Clooney, is canceled, according to the director.
While doing the junket circuit to promote his Disney+ “Star Wars” series “Skeleton Crew,” the filmmaker told Collider, “I don’t know what I’m directing next, and I don’t think there’s going to be a ‘Wolfs’ sequel.”
Reps for Apple TV+ did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
