Overview

• Brad Pitt revealed that he and Tom Cruise were attached to an early Ford v Ferrari project but both left when they discovered their characters wouldn’t be driving as much as they wanted.
• F1: The Movie debuted to $144 million globally, making it Apple Original Films’ highest-grossing theatrical release to date.
• Apple is reportedly in talks for a follow-up to F1: The Movie, though Lewis Hamilton and cast members have urged patience to avoid rushing into a sequel.
• Lewis Hamilton, who served as executive producer, suggested applying post-race debrief practices to filmmaking and warned that most sequels suffer from hasty production.
• Director Joseph Kosinski has floated the idea of crossing over Cruise’s Days of Thunder character, Cole Trickle, with Pitt’s Sonny Hayes in a potential sequel.