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 Bruckheimer, and directed by Joseph Kosinski, who was behind the latest T⭕op Gun movie.
Shooting is set 🤡to begin later this year, with the plot revolving around a veteran driver played byꦬ Pitt who mentors a rising F1 star.
At the launch of Me🉐r🌺cedes’ 2023 F1 car, Hamilton revealed he is currently helping to choose who would co-star alongside the Hollywood icon.
“We're going through a process right now of selecting the character that w🍸ill be alongside Brad, which is exciting,” Hamilton said.
“Basically that's the process of watching [the 🎃auditions]. We have recordings of them doing certain scenesꩵ and we got through it.
“I've have sat in the office with Jerry and Joe and Brad, and we've been watching them and ღkind of given our inputs and what we think.”
The seven-time world champion is focused onཧ representation and said he would “love to see a female driver” in ꦅthe film.
“I want to make the movie, in terms of like having diversity and representation, I want it to be as Formula 1 should be in the future - or should be now, but will be in theꦏ future,” Hamilton said.
“I want to see female mechanics. We would lov൩e to see a female driver. We haven't gott♕en to that point just yet. But why not?
“Right now, we’ve still got the script. We’ve gone th🍬rough 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 thr💯ou♈ghout Christmas.
“It's exciting. I'm ex🐬cited to get the nex𝓰t 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 n𓆏ew movie at a cost of $140million (£125m).
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