Lewis Hamilton helping to choose Brad Pitt co-star for new F1 film
The as-yet unnamed film will be co-produced by Hamilton and Jerry Bru꧑ckheime🍬r, and directed by Joseph Kosinski, who was behind the latest Top Gun movie.
Shooting is set ไto begin later this year, with the plot revolving around a veteran driver played by Pitt who mentors a rising F1 star.
At the launch of Mercedes’ 2023 F1 car, Hamilton revealed he is currently helping to choose who w❀ould co-star alongside the Hollywood icon.
“We're going 🦹through a process right now of selecting the char💃acter that will be alongside Brad, which is exciting,” Hamilton said.
“Basically that's the process of w✤atching [the auditions]. We have recordings of them doing certain scenes and we gotꦇ through it.
“I💎've have sat in the office with Jerry and Joe and Brad, and we've been watching them 💟and kind of given our inputs and what we think.”
The seven-time world champion is focused on representation and said he would “love to see a female ꦉdriver” in the film.
“I want to make the movie, in t🎃erms of like having diversity and rep🔥resentation, I want it to be as Formula 1 should be in the future - or should be now, but will be in the future,” Hamilton said.
“I want to see female mechanics. We woಌu♎ld love to see a female driver. We haven't gotten to that point just yet. But why not?
“Right now, we’ve still got the script. We’ve gone through quite a few different iterations 🎃of it.
“We're still waiting for a new rewrite, and that's the whole process. But I was doing that througho⛎ut Christmas.
“ꦆIt's exciting. I'm excited to get the next end of the script. I was talking to Brad last night about the characters that we have coming.”
Apple TV have𝄹 acquired the rights for the new movie at a cost of $140million (£12꧃5m).
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