Brad Pitt’s getting his turn to do something stupid-dangerous for a movie
Pitt will do at least some of his own driving, Tom Cruise-style, in Joseph Kosinski's upcoming Formula One movie
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Look: We would never suggest, for a moment, that every male star in Hollywood of a certain age is desperate to prove that they’re just as indifferent to their own safety—and as in love with doing their own stunts—as Tom Cruise is. It would be folly to suggest that Cruise’s contemporaries look at his movies, in which he regularly imperils himself for undeniably impressive effect (and rapturous press) and think to themselves, “Hey, I could do that. I could get myself nearly killed for a movie!”
Anyway: Brad Pitt is working with Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinksi—fresh off filming a movie in which Cruise was the big impressive airplane man—on a movie where Pitt will drive on actual F1 racetracks, just like a big boy might, vroom vroom, vroom vroom. (Note: Per Variety, Pitt probably won’t be driving an actual F1 car, as his vehicle “will most likely be a modified version of a junior F2 or F3 car,” which hit speeds that aren’t quite so massively fast.)
This is per Collider, reporting on a panel today conducted by British broadcaster Will Buxton at the F1 Accelerate Summit, where it was confirmed that Pitt and Kosinski’s as-yet-untitled Formula One movie will include footage of Pitt himself driving at tracks from the British Grand Prix. (Not racing against other people, mind you, just filming on the track.) The film is being co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who once upon a time produced the high-budget racing drama Days Of Thunder—a movie in which Tom Cruise was famously stopped from doing his own stunt driving due to insurance worries. (According to Buxton, Cruise has supposedly reached out to his old co-workers with an offer to drive, too, lending his old Interview With A Vampire co-star what we’re sure is a very welcome hand.)
The film will reportedly use technology that Kosinski developed and refined on Maverick in order to capture footage of cars that can go as fast as 225 miles per hour, including shots from the cockpit, so that we can watch this movie a few years from now and really know, “Yep, Brad Pitt damn near killed himself for this one. Good for him, I guess.”
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Come on guys, the typo is in the very first word of the headline
Headline by Cookie Monster
It’s not a typo? I get that it’s a weird construction but I promise you it’s deliberate.
*shrugs* I’m changing it because I’ve written literally 10,000 headlines and my brain is mush now, it reads fine to me as a sort of flat language thing (shades of our colleagues at The Onion’s famed “It Only Tuesday”) but if it reads to multiple people as a typo I guess it counts as a mistake regardless of intent.
It is (or was, now that it’s been changed) clearly an old-style, long-on-headline-vs.-short-on-space print compromise. The Onion does it all the time. It clearly looked a little odd though too, so maybe for the best ultimately to change it.
Something of a theme for the day apparently. Fire bad!
Fire indeed bad.
Nah, that one is for sure a typo. Thanks for pointing out, fixed now.
Fun fact: Pitt, Cruise, and Kosinski were already set to do Ford v Ferrari and got as far as an actual table read but the execs deemed it to expensive and so was scrapped. Kosinski and Cruise went off and made Top Gun with that same tech. Cruise and Pitt have often wanted to find a project to work together again. Some idiot exec didn’t know what kind of a lottery ticket they were sitting on :/
Interesting! Evidently Cruise was going to play Shelby and Pitt was going to play Miles. Cruise, Pitt, Damon, and Bale are all bona fide movie stars but I’d say that Damon and Bale are both better actors in general than Cruise and Pitt (and Bale outclasses the other three by a country mile).
I’m not an F1 fan but if someone were to offer me millions of dollars to drive a fast car… what is there to even think about? I guess my day job isn’t as exciting as William Hughes’.
“Anyway: Brad Pitt is working with Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinksi—fresh off filming a movie in which Cruise was the big impressive airplane man—on a movie where Pitt will drive on actual F1 racetracks, just like a big boy might, vroom vroom, vroom vroom.”I get that snark has always been The AV Club’s thing, but writing something straightforward is also an option.
Maybe he should fix the stupid-dangerous thing he did for the people in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans first
His foundation paid $20.5 million in a settlement over that issue. Not sure what more you expect him to do after the fact.
Can Brad Pitt like…go away for even a moment? Everyone knows what he did, nobody wants to see him on a film screen. Just go away!
I guess you might say Brad’s about to make a….Pitt Stop.YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH