All right folks, we know that the film is about cars and F1 cars more specifically. However, the budget seems to be a bit high for Hollywood people. With Brad Pitt starring in a Joseph Kosinski film (the director of Top Gun: Maverick), fans are curious.
With their curiosity, fans are also doubting the film’s success. Debating whether the film will be a flop or the ace of cards, fans can’t really figure out which. The one thing that they can figure out is that a budget of $300 million for a Hollywood film is too much!
Brad Pitt’s F1 Films Budget Can Buy 20 F1 Cars!
Before all the math folks freak out, we arrived at the calculation by considering the average cost of an F1 car to be $15 million. The math checks out. But enough about math, let’s get down to the finer details of this unnamed movie and what people think about it.
Starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris alongside an ensemble cast of Javier Bardem, Max Verstappen, and, several others (reportedly), the film is quite the talk of the town. Only known as Untitled Formula One Racing Movie on IMDB, the film is quite a spectacle and people are not so sure about its success.
Reportedly having a budget of $300 million, the project is quite costly compared to other Hollywood films. Sharing their opinion (and trolls), people took to X (formerly Twitter) to talk about the high budget of the movie and how it could potentially end in a disaster (like Verstappen at the Miami Grand Prix 2024).
A movie about racing with practical effects should not cost $300 million. Thats a flop on arrival
— Driptimus Prime (@MrAwesome824) May 9, 2024
After seeing the recent Apes and Dune 2, it is inexcusable for basically anything these days to be breaking $250-300M
— Jared (@TheShiftingBlog) May 9, 2024
You could run an actual #F1 team for 2 seasons on that budget…
— Ziyaad Mohomed (@Ziyaggy) May 9, 2024
What?! Apple really is willing to burn cash 😂 pic.twitter.com/833KXgFb9s
— Box Office Forecast 🎬 (@BoxOfficeFcst) May 9, 2024
$300M flop.
— Daniel Darke (@fatuousposts) May 9, 2024
Better be a guaranteed billion dollar movie for that type of budget unless they just doing it for artistic purpose
— 😂🧐🤗👋 A Tribe Called Nerds (@MelaninMugen) May 9, 2024
But we hope that it’s not all bad. With finer details kept under wraps, there are a few things that we know about this film. Although it doesn’t explain the $300 million budget, it’s a start on how the Untitled Formula One Racing Movie will turn out to be (the name is catching on).
What We Know About Brad Pitt’s Upcoming F1 Movie
Well, the unnamed movie has several things hidden away as of now, but there are some things that have been made public about the untitled project. Firstly, the movie will feature several cameos from notable F1 drivers including Lewis Hamilton (who’s also a producer) and Max Verstappen (allegedly).
According to IMDB, lead star Brad Pitt was paid a whopping amount of $30 million for this film (making it the highest number in his career). Hamilton also revealed in an interview that he had seen Pitt coming down in October of 2022 to check out the F1 cars. He and Pitt later discussed about this very same project and Hamilton was later attached as a producer of the film.
With drivers, cars, and Brad Pitt, the Untitled Formula One Racing Movie will indeed be a spectacle. Either a failure or a grand success (hoping for the latter), what we truly know is that the movie will indeed redefine racing movies and cinema.
