In Brad Pitt's new movie he plays an F1 pilot: with Javier Bardem and the 'Top Gun' director

After the great box office success of Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to Tom Cruise's 90s classic, its director, John Kosinski, and its screenwriter, Ehren Kruger, have come together once again to launch what is expected to be one of the great blockbusters of 2025: F1. 

With a budget of over 300 million dollars and produced by Apple Films, this film promises to be a spectacle for fans of this particular competition and sports-themed stories in general, because it has been filmed in collaboration with Formula 1, including its 10 teams and drivers, the FIA, and race promoters.

If that wasn't enough of a draw, F1 boasts a spectacular cast led by Brad Pitt in the role of a former driver who returns to competition after retiring due to an accident.

Brad Pitt and Damson Idris during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

His character returns alongside Damson Idris (Snowfall) as his teammate in APXGP, a fictional team on the grid, whose owner will be portrayed by Javier Bardem. Their team is the last on the grid and has never scored a point. Now, with a young promising driver and a former star eager to prove his worth, they form a team determined to make history.

Bardem plays the owner of the fictional team APXGP, the last on the grid that has never scored a point. With a young promising driver (Idris) on board, he decides to reach out to the former competition star portrayed by Pitt to try to convince him and form a team to shake things up.

The rest of the cast includes Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul), Tobias Menzies (The Crown), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), and Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve), as well as real F1 drivers like Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz Jr, Sergio Pérez, or Benoit Treluyer playing themselves.

Shot in actual races

The film began shooting in July 2023 during the weekend of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. 

Pitt drove a modified Formula 2 car with a Formula 1 aerodynamic package added during the race weekend. Filming also took place at the 2024 Daytona 24 Hours.

Release Date

Warner Bros. Pictures is set to release F1 in theaters on June 25, 2025, internationally, and in the United States on June 27, 2025.

Following the initial theatrical distribution window, the film will be exclusively available on the Apple TV+ streaming platform. 

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence