F1 News: Lewis Hamilton's Formula One Movie Reaches Production Hurdle

Formula 1 drivers have been shown some early footage from the highly awaited Brad Pitt movie on F1 in a drivers' briefing. The movie is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, with Lewis Hamilton being the co-producer of the movie.

While Brad Pitt plays the lead role, Hamilton will focus on the operation behind the scenes. Just recently, Pitt was spotted in an F1-lookalike F2-spec car at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for filming.

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However, certain labor-related challenges in Hollywood have slowed the progress of the movie. With filming mostly said to resume next year, Sky F1's Ted Kravitz offered an update about the movie from the Circuit of the Americas in Austin. He said:

“Jerry Bruckheimer, with the Lewis Hamilton co-produced movie, is kind of on hiatus while the Actors’ Guild continue their arguments with the big studios.

"But it looks like it is going to resume as soon as that is sorted out.

"Jerry Bruckheimer was here to have some meetings with people.

"It was an opportunity, as I understand it, for Joseph Kosinski who was also here this weekend, the director (Bruckheimer is the producer, Hamilton co-producer), to actually show the drivers and everybody in Formula 1 that this is still a project that is ongoing despite the actors’ strike and now the writers’ strike has been concluded successfully with an agreement on both sides.

"Once the actors are back to work, they can carry on production. But clearly it is going to be offset into next year.

"The grand prix circus cannot wait for such antics and politics going on in Hollywood!”

Surprisingly, the movie, which will be broadcast by Apple TV when it launches, does not have an official title yet. Starring alongside Pitt is British actor Damson Idris. Both actors were a part of the F1 drivers' briefings in Silverstone where a separate garage was set up in their name with the colors of the fictional team APXGP.