We are just over a month away from the F1 movie directed by Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski releasing in cinemas, and the extensive main trailer has just been revealed. Here is our breakdown of it!
The F1 movie starring Brad Pitt is not far out, with the black and gold Apex team cars being filmed onsite at Grand Prix for the past two years and a tie-in with the upcoming F1 25 game. Also starring alongside Pitt are Damson Idris (Snowfall), Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul), and Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall).
We have spoken at length about previous teasers for the film, but we now have the first main trailer for the movie. So here we are again, breaking down the contents of the F1 trailer!
Of course, that last part leads seamlessly into the tension between Hayes and the Apex team's rising star driver Joshua Pearce (Idris), with the latter making a dig at Hayes' age in a press conference. The film's synopsis states that Hayes has come out of retirement to mentor Pearce, but the young driver states he will not be some "grateful kid who will bend the knee to an old timer".
Team principal Ruben Cervantes (Bardem) goes on to say "I should never have pulled you into this".
In the trailer, it would appear that Pearce will endure an airborne crash at some point. Image: Warner Bros
From that point on, it is noticeably vague. The action scenes depict quite a few instances of the drivers crashing, like an airborne crash for Pearce (akin to Mark Webber's Valencia 2010 crash) and Hayes running from a burning car (like Romain Grosjean in Bahrain 2020). Plus, whilst only the crash itself is depicted in the trailer, we know from the Las Vegas GP last year that Hayes collapses on track after getting out of his car following a heavy collision.
Additionally, maybe a few eagle eyed F1 history buffs will recognise the snippet of the trailer that depicts the first corner incident between Charles Leclerc and Sergio Pérez in Mexico City 2023. Then towards the end at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Hayes and Pearce appear to exchange words during a race stoppage followed by Hayes performing a switchback on a Ferrari. Maybe to take a win?
Ultimately, whilst a trailer's job is to not give everything away and intrigue us, there is not a whole lot from this trailer we can work with other than a driver is making a comeback to F1, his teammate does not like him and there are quite a few crashes. Does sound a lot like the Sylvester Stallone movie Driven, but hopefully with better visual FX.
We will have to go to the cinema to find out for ourselves what this movie will end up being, with F1 releasing on June 25, and releasing in the US on June 27. To tidy you over until then, we at OverTake have been reviewing a load of racing movies, check out our reviews of the Senna mini-series, Rush, Ford v Ferrari, Grand Prix and Ferrari.
Our next review? The Le Mans movie from 1971, before we move on to the review of the upcoming F1 movie.
What did you make of the trailer for the F1 movie? Let us know in the comments below and join the discussion in our forums!
The F1 movie starring Brad Pitt is not far out, with the black and gold Apex team cars being filmed onsite at Grand Prix for the past two years and a tie-in with the upcoming F1 25 game. Also starring alongside Pitt are Damson Idris (Snowfall), Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul), and Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall).
We have spoken at length about previous teasers for the film, but we now have the first main trailer for the movie. So here we are again, breaking down the contents of the F1 trailer!
F1 Movie Trailer
The trailer starts with establishing Pitt's character Sonny Hayes as a bit of a Maverick who bows to nobody, with his race engineer and love interest Kate (Condon) hammering the point home that you can only succeed when you work as a team, reminding him the livelihoods of everyone in the team are reliant on the drivers getting good results and being professional.Of course, that last part leads seamlessly into the tension between Hayes and the Apex team's rising star driver Joshua Pearce (Idris), with the latter making a dig at Hayes' age in a press conference. The film's synopsis states that Hayes has come out of retirement to mentor Pearce, but the young driver states he will not be some "grateful kid who will bend the knee to an old timer".
Team principal Ruben Cervantes (Bardem) goes on to say "I should never have pulled you into this".
In the trailer, it would appear that Pearce will endure an airborne crash at some point. Image: Warner Bros
From that point on, it is noticeably vague. The action scenes depict quite a few instances of the drivers crashing, like an airborne crash for Pearce (akin to Mark Webber's Valencia 2010 crash) and Hayes running from a burning car (like Romain Grosjean in Bahrain 2020). Plus, whilst only the crash itself is depicted in the trailer, we know from the Las Vegas GP last year that Hayes collapses on track after getting out of his car following a heavy collision.
Additionally, maybe a few eagle eyed F1 history buffs will recognise the snippet of the trailer that depicts the first corner incident between Charles Leclerc and Sergio Pérez in Mexico City 2023. Then towards the end at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Hayes and Pearce appear to exchange words during a race stoppage followed by Hayes performing a switchback on a Ferrari. Maybe to take a win?
Ultimately, whilst a trailer's job is to not give everything away and intrigue us, there is not a whole lot from this trailer we can work with other than a driver is making a comeback to F1, his teammate does not like him and there are quite a few crashes. Does sound a lot like the Sylvester Stallone movie Driven, but hopefully with better visual FX.
We will have to go to the cinema to find out for ourselves what this movie will end up being, with F1 releasing on June 25, and releasing in the US on June 27. To tidy you over until then, we at OverTake have been reviewing a load of racing movies, check out our reviews of the Senna mini-series, Rush, Ford v Ferrari, Grand Prix and Ferrari.
Our next review? The Le Mans movie from 1971, before we move on to the review of the upcoming F1 movie.
What did you make of the trailer for the F1 movie? Let us know in the comments below and join the discussion in our forums!
