British actor’s credits include lead in US TV show Snowfall.
British rising star Damson Idris has landed a key role opposite Brad Pitt on Apple Original Films’ untitled Formula One tentpole.
The story will see Pitt play a former driver who returns to the sport. Idris will portray Pitt’s teammate for director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Plan B Entertainment.
Idris’s credits include the lead in FX US television show Snowfall, as well as Farming, for which he earned the award for best performance in a British feature at 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. He...
British rising star Damson Idris has landed a key role opposite Brad Pitt on Apple Original Films’ untitled Formula One tentpole.
The story will see Pitt play a former driver who returns to the sport. Idris will portray Pitt’s teammate for director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Plan B Entertainment.
Idris’s credits include the lead in FX US television show Snowfall, as well as Farming, for which he earned the award for best performance in a British feature at 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. He...
- 4/7/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Fresh from box office triumph with Top Gun: Maverick, director Joseph Kosinski promises similar “in-camera action” on his forthcoming racing car movie.
Kosinski says he will be using effects created solely by the camera — to make viewers feel like they are behind the wheel at 200mph, in the film with the working title of Formula One – to star Brad Pitt and co-produced by seven-time world champion racing driver Lewis Hamilton.
“Certainly seeing people react to an in-camera, authentically captured film like Top Gun makes us all feel good that our approach works and is appreciated by audiences,” he told The Wrap.
“It’s almost funny to me to see people who are so enamored with real photography. Younger people almost haven’t seen a lot of it. They’re so used to CGI [computer-generated images] being a tool of big movies that when you shoot something for real, it feels innovative. That...
Kosinski says he will be using effects created solely by the camera — to make viewers feel like they are behind the wheel at 200mph, in the film with the working title of Formula One – to star Brad Pitt and co-produced by seven-time world champion racing driver Lewis Hamilton.
“Certainly seeing people react to an in-camera, authentically captured film like Top Gun makes us all feel good that our approach works and is appreciated by audiences,” he told The Wrap.
“It’s almost funny to me to see people who are so enamored with real photography. Younger people almost haven’t seen a lot of it. They’re so used to CGI [computer-generated images] being a tool of big movies that when you shoot something for real, it feels innovative. That...
- 6/18/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Kosinski, riding high on ’Top Gun: Maverick’ box office success, to direct; producers include Jerry Bruckheimer, Lewis Hamilton
Busy Apple Studios has acquired rights to the upcoming Formula 1 feature starring Brad Pitt which Plan B, Jerry Bruckheimer and British morot racing great Lewis Hamilton will produce alongside Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski, who will also direct.
Pitt will portray a driver who comes out of retirement to team up with a rookie and take on the titans of the sport. The deal with Kosinski, Plan B Entertainment and Jerry Bruckheimer Films marks Apple’s second feature with Pitt...
Busy Apple Studios has acquired rights to the upcoming Formula 1 feature starring Brad Pitt which Plan B, Jerry Bruckheimer and British morot racing great Lewis Hamilton will produce alongside Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski, who will also direct.
Pitt will portray a driver who comes out of retirement to team up with a rookie and take on the titans of the sport. The deal with Kosinski, Plan B Entertainment and Jerry Bruckheimer Films marks Apple’s second feature with Pitt...
- 6/7/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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