Brad Pitt’s $300 million F1 film producer reveals Lewis Hamilton’s massive impact on the project

Brad Pitt's F1 film producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed how Lewis Hamilton's presence as a consultant is making the movie more authentic.

Brad Pitt’s $300 million F1 film producer reveals Lewis Hamilton’s massive impact on the project

Lewis Hamilton Brad Pitt (images via IMAGO)

While the F1 world awaits the break to get over for the final triple-header of the season, the preparations for the Brad Pitt F1 film have been going strong on the other hand. Subsequently, film producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed how Lewis Hamilton is contributing in making the movie authentic.

Lewis Hamilton‘s presence in areas apart from racing has increased over the past few years. Moreover, his active role in directing the F1 film closer to reality has been a testament to this. The 39-year-old has been taking regular updates on the film’s progress.

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Bruckheimer explained how the Brit has been able to rectify seemingly small mistakes in the buildup to the movie. The 81-year-old elaborated on an incident related to the Apex GP cars lapping the Silverstone track, where Hamilton was able to detect flaws just by noticing the sound of the gear changes.

He (Lewis Hamilton) saw part of the movie yesterday, and he gave us a critique of how the drivers actually do various things. The level of specifics that he gave us, like in Silverstone in Turn 3, you’re in second gear, and he could hear with his ear we were in third gear. It’s that kind of thing that he’s bringing to the movie. The authenticity that [Hamilton] brings, and we just can’t imagine what goes into what a driver does, what the sport brings to an audience, and he gives it to us.

Jerry Bruckheimer said

With the F1 film going through multiple rounds of revision, the final cut is anticipated to be a refined piece that would attract the general audience to the F1 scene. However, the film is slated to release in June of next year, thus, there is still a long way to go before the movie hits the cinema screens.

Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes’ partnership made Red Bull skeptical of the F1 film

Getting every stakeholder on board the F1 movie train was not easy for Jerry Bruckheimer. He dwelled deeper into how the symbiotic partnership with Mercedes and Hamilton caused them problems in the long run as teams viewed their plans through a layer of skepticism.

Red Bull and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton
Christian Horner, Max Verstappen, and Lewis Hamilton (via IMAGO)

Subsequently, the American elucidated how Red Bull reckoned that they would be portrayed as villains in the film and went against the notion of making an F1 film.

Red Bull said ‘we’re going to be the villains’. It took us three years to convince them that they weren’t going to be the villains and we finally got to a place where all the teams are really leaning into us to really help us.

Jerry Bruckheimer said (via Motorsport Week)

Red Bull finally agreed to make the film happen and got onto the same page as everyone else. This eradicated any problems that were in the way of the film making it onto the cinema screens. Both F1 and filmmakers will hope for the smooth execution of the rest of the stages of production of the film.