Inside the high-speed production of ‘F1 The Movie’
Apple News In Conversation
Apple News
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Formula 1 is the highest level of motorsport, with cars hitting speeds of over 200 miles per hour and teams making split-second, high-stakes decisions behind the scenes. Now the drama of this sport is coming to the big screen, with the new Apple Original film F1 The Movie, starring actors Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, in theaters June 27. Director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer wanted to make it the most authentic car-racing movie possible, and they shot real F1 races, incorporating those scenes into the film. They sat down with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu to talk about bringing the world of F1 to life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Shemitabasu. |
| 0:07.9 | Today, bringing the speed, sound, and drama of F1 to the big screen. |
| 0:25.8 | Formula One is the highest level of motorsport. |
| 0:30.4 | Is it late again? Is it great again? Philando Norris. |
| 0:33.7 | Perez on the inside show, LeClair, gives him just enough space. |
| 0:39.0 | Piastri and Norris, separated by nothing to 200 miles per hour. It's a late lunch by Vestappan who takes the lead of the race. Through goes Hamilton. Unbelievable stuff. |
| 0:45.5 | Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and is a seven-time champion of the world. |
| 0:52.7 | The cars are among the fastest and most advanced machines in the world, hitting speeds |
| 0:57.5 | of over 200 miles per hour. |
| 1:00.0 | The drivers are elite athletes, training their bodies to tolerate breakneck speeds and |
| 1:05.4 | fine-tune their reaction times. |
| 1:07.6 | And now, this fast-paced and high-stakes sport is coming to the big screen with the new |
| 1:12.6 | Apple film F-1 The Movie in theaters June 27. The story centers on Sunny Hayes, played by Brad Pitt, |
| 1:21.2 | a former Formula One driver who returns to the sport after a near fatal crash to mentor a rookie |
| 1:27.4 | played by Damsan Idris, |
| 1:29.3 | and help a struggling team. |
| 1:31.1 | Some people look at Sunny Hayes. |
| 1:32.8 | They see a guy who lives in a van, a gambling junkie who missed his shot. |
| 1:37.1 | Wow, Rubin, you are really selling this. |
| 1:39.0 | But I see a guy who makes teams better. |
| 1:41.5 | I see experience. |
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