Formula One drivers hail Apple’s ‘F1 The Movie,’ starring Brad Pitt, as a hit after Monaco screening

Formula One drivers praised Brad Pitt’s upcoming F1 movie as a hit that could attract new fans to the sport after an exclusive pre-release screening at the Monaco Grand Prix. The Apple Original film, featuring action scenes shot during race weekends with the sport’s collaboration, will hit theaters internationally on June 25 and in North America on June 27th.

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula One’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling Formula One team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to Formula One for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll 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 and he finds that in Formula One, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

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“Honestly, I enjoyed the whole thing,” Williams driver Carlos Sainz, sworn to secrecy on the plot like all those present, told reporters on Thursday. “There were things that really surprised me. “Not talking about the story, but the quality of footage they got. It’s insane. Honestly insane. That’s for me the best part of all of it.

“The team have done an outstanding job in putting together a very good Hollywood movie.”

Haas rookie driver Oliver Bearman, 20, agreed. “I think it really depicts in a great way what we go through, in a bit of a Hollywood way as you would expect, but that makes it really interesting,” said the Briton. “I think the goal of the movie is going to be achieved. I think it’s going to be a huge hit and it’s going to make people want to watch F1, which is really the goal of it.”

“We are probably the worst possible audience to watch that movie because you’re going to look and scrutinise every detail, every gear change, every pit stop, and it was very authentic,” said the Briton.

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