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F1 Trailer 2 Roars onto the Scene from Apple Films
Apple Original Films has released the second movie trailer for F1 (2025).
Cast and crew
Joseph Kosinski‘s F1 trailer 2 stars Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia, and Samson Kayo.
“Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”) directs and produces the feature alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films; Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment; and Lewis Hamilton under his Dawn Apollo Films banner. The film is made in collaboration with Formula 1® and the F1 community, including the 10 F1 teams and their drivers, the FIA, and race promoters. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as executive producer.”
Plot Synopsis
F1 (2025)’s plot synopsis: “Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) on the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).”
On the trailer and film
Joseph Kosinski directs the new movie about “the best that never was”.
F1 tells the exciting story of Sonny Hayes, a roving ‘racer for hire’, having flamed out of racing in his youth. Offered a shot by his former racing partner, played by Javier Bardem, the movie looks to be an exhilarating story of redemption amid tumult, with Brad Pitt delivering a hero that, for all his toughness, is flawed and human.
Having directed the successful sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, director Joseph Kosinski looks to employing similar film-making techniques in F1, with cameras capturing drivers in the cockpits of the F1 cars, as well as the visceral, realistic motion of the cars.
“This is a movie about friendship, teamwork, sacrifice, redemption,” director Joseph Kosinski said in a virtual Q&A. “The story I think is universal. It just happens to be set in this incredibly exciting world of Formula One, and if you are a Formula One fan, I think you are going to like this movie. If you do not know anything about Formula One, I think you are going to like this movie and you might come out wanting to watch some races or maybe even go to a race. So yeah, you do not need to know anything going in. We will teach you everything you need to enjoy this story.”
On Movie Trailers
“A trailer (also known as a preview or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and technical work…Trailers consist of a series of selected shots from the film being advertised.
Since the purpose of [this advertisement] is to attract an audience to the film, these excerpts are usually drawn from the most exciting, funny, or otherwise noteworthy parts of the film but in abbreviated form and usually without producing spoilers.
For this purpose the scenes are not necessarily in the order in which they appear in the film. [This type of ad] has to achieve that in less than 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the maximum length allowed by the MPA. Each studio or distributor is allowed to exceed this time limit once a year, if they feel it is necessary for a particular film.
In the United States there are dozens of companies, many of which are in Los Angeles and New York City, that specialize in the creation of film trailers. The trailer may be created at agencies (such as The Cimarron Group, MOJO, The Ant Farm, Ben Cain, Aspect Ratio, Flyer Entertainment, Trailer Park, Buddha Jones) while the film itself is being cut together at the studio.
Since the edited film does not exist at this point, the trailer editors work from rushes or dailies. Thus, the trailer may contain footage that is not in the final movie, or the trailer editor and the film editor may use different takes of a particular shot. Another common technique is including music on the trailer which does not appear on the movie’s soundtrack.
This is nearly always a requirement, as trailers and teasers are created long before the composer has even been hired for the film score—sometimes as much as a year ahead of the movie’s release date—while composers are usually the last creative people to work on the film
Trailers tell the story of a film in a highly condensed fashion to have maximum appeal. In the decades since film marketing has become a large industry, trailers have become highly polished pieces of advertising, able to present even poor movies in an attractive light.
The key ambition in trailer-making is to impart an intriguing story that gets film audiences emotionally involved.
Most trailers have a three-act structure similar to a feature-length film. They start with a beginning (act 1) that lays out the premise of the story. The middle (act 2) drives the story further and usually ends with a dramatic climax.
Act 3 usually features a strong piece of “signature music” (either a recognizable song or a powerful, sweeping orchestral piece). This last act often consists of a visual montage of powerful and emotional moments of the film and may also contain a cast run if there are noteworthy stars that could help sell the movie.”
The Feature Movie Trailer
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