Hollywood celebrity Brad Pitt will change into a grand prix racer this weekend.

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton don’t have anything to fret about, since Pitt received’t actually be racing, however his presence on the British Grand Prix is proof of the seek for realism in a brand new motorsport film known as Apex.

It’s being filmed this 12 months and is predicted to have a full-scale theatrical launch someday in 2024.

Filming of Apex begins this weekend, when Pitt might be within the pits on the Silverstone circuit in a storage constructed specifically for the film work.

It would have the identical appear and feel as an actual grand prix storage, due to a take care of System 1 administration that enables the development of a film set alongside the ten race bases for the actual grand prix groups.

“Will probably be the primary film when, principally, they are going to be inside the racing occasion,” F1 CEO, Stefano Domenicali, informed motorsport.com.

“Will probably be fairly invasive when it comes to manufacturing, it’s one thing that we have to management in a manner, however will probably be one other manner of exhibiting that F1 by no means stops.”

The Apex venture has been underway for greater than 4 years and Hamilton, a seven-time world champion with the McLaren and Mercedes-AMG groups, was an early signing as its F1 guide.

The film crew additionally contains star producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski, whose most up-to-date blockbuster was High Gun: Maverick.

The manufacturing group met senior F1 administration final 12 months, on the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, to type the preliminary particulars and Pitt has visited a number of races since then.

Filming will embody using modified System 2 automobiles, which might be pushed on actual tracks – together with Silverstone – by skilled drivers.

The automobiles might be re-skinned, fairly probably utilizing computer-generated imagery (CGI) to appear to be real System One automobiles.

Other than Pitt, who will star as Sonny Hayes, the solid additionally contains Damson Idris, enjoying Joshua Pearce.

The predictable script has Pitt as a retired racer who returns to mentor Idris’s character.

If that sounds acquainted, it’s much like the set-up for the second High Gun film – when Tom Cruise coaches a group of youthful fighter pilots.

Other than the plot, different take-outs from Maverick embody tiny 6G cameras which will be fitted onto and contained in the automobiles.

The Apex script can be much like the exorable Pushed film from 2001, a Sylvester Stallone venture initially deliberate to get inside F1 however finally switched to IndyCar racing within the USA.

The lowlight of Pushed, which additionally had Burt Reynolds within the solid, was Stallone racing his younger protege on the streets of Chicago of their race automobiles.

The Apex venture comes following an enormous soar within the following for System One due to the Drive to Survive tv collection on Netflix.

Rush, a 2013 movie re-creating the real-world rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt in System One, was additionally a cinema hit with Chris Hemsworth starring as Hunt.

Different F1-inspired motion pictures embody Senna – a documentary concerning the rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost – in 2010; Fortunate from 2022, which tells the life story of the previous F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone; and, this 12 months, Villeneuve-Pironi concerning the poisonous relationship between Ferrari team-mates Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi within the early Eighties.