Top Gun : Maverick dropped audiences' jaws, as it took them inside the cockpit of fighter jets with Tom Cruise and its cast. Now, director Joseph Kosinski is building on the movie’s impressive technology with F1 . The Brad Pitt-led movie has the actor playing a former Formula One driver who returns to the profession after years of being away from it.
During the production, the filmmakers not only closely collaborated with Formula One and its teams, but Kosinski called upon the expertise of Lewis Hamilton. And it sounds like he was critical to the production. Lewis Hamilton has been hailed as the best Formula One driver the circuit has ever seen, earning over one hundred wins throughout his career thus far.
He not only serves as a producer on F1 and appears as himself in the film, but he’s also being credited as a key name in the making of what is quickly becoming one of the most exciting entries on the 2025 movie schedule . Joseph Kosinski recently opened up about the process of recruiting the racing icon for the film: He’s the first person I contacted three years ago. I knew for us to make it as authentic as possible, someone on the team who lives it day-in and day-out would be invaluable.
Lewis has been an incredible partner; he jumps on Zooms with me between races to go through the script, line by line, turn by turn, you know, tire compound by tire compound, to make sure that we are getting all the details right. Beyond that, on a creative and story level, he also ha.
