Real Grand Prix supporters witnessed a collapse on the circuit. Turns out it was for Brad Pitt’s F1 movie

On November 26, 2024By Pranco

The world of car racing is dangerous and crashes and injuries are common. And yet, when visitors saw an F1 racer collapse on the track in Las Vegas this weekend, it wasn’t another on-track injury. It was normal Brad Pitt’s stuntman.

Brad Pitt’s upcoming moviesimply titled F1puts Pitt literally in the driver’s seat, and the production uses real F1 events as locations during filming. Anyone unaware of what was going on may have been concerned or perhaps confused when they saw someone dressed like a racer, with a camera strapped to their face, apparently collapsing on the track. The Instagram account for the film, which presents itself as a real F1 team but is a promotional account for the film, posted the incident.

According to PeoplePitt didn’t fall to the ground; his stuntman landed on a crash pad. Like his previous film, Top pistol: Maverickdirector Joseph Kosinski usually used Brad Pitt himself, as well as co-star Damson Idrisin their racing scenes. It is really them behind the wheelMe a lot of the time. However, it seems like not every scene in the movie will be Pitt.

While the F1 The movie has been filming for a while now, it sounds like the scene shot in Vegas this weekend is from the beginning of the movie. The story focuses on Pitt, a successful F1 racer who leaves the sport after a serious crash and injury. Years later he is brought back and tries to make a comeback. It appears that the collapse shot here is the injury that occurs at the beginning of the film.

If anyone there didn’t know a movie was being shot during their race, the whole situation probably seemed surreal. The new one F1 film has seemingly used almost guerrilla tactics when it comes to shooting, as the film has had to film in tight windows to get the shots they need without disrupting the race itself. As you can imagine, this requires everyone to be on high alert and for everything to go just right.

Real F1 racing star Lewis Hamilton is a producer of the new film and also acts as a technical advisor of sorts, so it’s not just the locations that will give the film a sense of authenticity.

How much more filming needs to be done, during F1 races or otherwise, is unclear, but it’s probably not much. F1the release date is coming in June 2025, so production should wrap up fairly quickly so post-production can begin. On the plus side, the fact that the film’s stars did much of the action themselves probably means that there won’t be too much need for CGI work, as the film was handled practically. Still, editing all the action will certainly be complex.