By: Isaac Yuan

Right now, there’s the “Grand Prix,” “Le Mans,” “Days of Thunder,” and “Ford vs. Ferrari.” Soon, there will be another racing movie, this time with the main characters Sonny Hayes and Joshua Pearce, played by Brad Pitt and Damson Idris. This latest, as-yet-untitled movie is set on a Formula One racetrack. It is about the fictional team APXGP and its two drivers, Sonny Hayes and Joshua Pearce, played by Brad Pitt and Damson Idris.

Sonny Hayes, played by Brad Pitt, is “a guy who raced in the ’90s, has a horrible crash, kind of craps out, disappears and then races in other disciplines,” he said in an interview with Sky Sports F1. “His friend, played by Javier Bardem, is a team owner. They’re the last-place team — 21, 22 on the grid — they’ve never scored a point, have a young phenom played by Damson, and he brings me in as a kind of a Hail Mary, and high jinks ensue.”

Lewis Hamilton is an executive producer working with Kosinski to help with authenticity. He is also a seven-time Formula 1 champion, which definitely means he can cover the part where they have to deal with the physics in the movie. At Silverstone, Pitt attended the drivers’ briefing — a meeting with the race director of the F.I.A., or the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile — to discuss problems from the previous event and problems that might come for that weekend. George Russell, Hamilton’s teammate at Mercedes, said it was “quite surreal” to have Pitt involved.