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Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Love making movies for the big screen, those are the ones I grew up watching: 'F1' director Joseph Kosinski
New Delhi, As someone who grew up on a diet of big movies in theatres, filmmaker Joseph Kosinski says he loves films that give audiences a thrilling ride whether it is with Tom Cruise-starrer "Top Gun: Maverick" or his upcoming Brad Pitt-starrer "F1", an action adventure set in the world of Formula One racing. Kosinski's other credits include Cruise-starrer "Oblivion", a story that the director initially wrote as a graphic novel, and "Tron: Legacy" as well as "Only the Brave". "I love making films for the big screen. I think now it's more important than ever that we get people out of their homes to see this. So you have to give them a reason to go to the theatre, and that's what I'm hoping to do with 'F1'," the filmmaker told PTI in a virtual interview. "Those are the kind of movies I grew up going to see in the theatre when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. I remember seeing 'Top Gun', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', big movies that take you into this world for two hours, send you on an adventure and then spit you out in the end and you can't wait to take the ride again," he added. Kosinski said the world of Formula One fascinated him and he thought it would be great to set a "big screen experience" within it. The movie revolves around a once-promising racer Sonny Hayes , whose former teammate Ruben Cervantes ropes in Pitt as a last-ditch effort to reverse the ailing fortunes of his F1 team. The team also has a successful rookie Joshua Pierce . Asked how is it to direct big stars like Pitt and Cruise, the filmmaker said they both love new challenges. "I think both Brad and Tom feel the same way. They're both at the top of their game, incredible professionals. They have great taste in films and stories. They understand how to develop a character. They're both incredible actors. And Brad was someone I always wanted to work with. "I thought this would be the perfect role for him. And luckily, he did, too, and it was just an incredible collaboration. I had an incredible time. And yeah, I'm excited for people to see his performance in this film, because I think it's really special," he added. Lewis Hamilton, who has won seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, is one of the producers on the movie. Kosinski said Hamilton was one of the first people he reached out to when he thought about making a movie on Formula One racing. "I asked him if he would help me make this film as authentic as possible. And he said yes. So he worked very closely with me and Jerry Bruckheimer and Brad from the beginning to help craft this story and character. We went through every line of the script together, making sure we got every detail right," he said. Kosinski's experience of working on "Top Gun: Maverick" came handy while shooting for this movie and one of them was to invent a brand new camera system. "The tools didn't exist to make this movie... We created a new prototype camera that's very small but delivers IMAX quality imagery. Sony built 25 prototypes for us, and we worked with the Mercedes F1 team to create a race car that had camera mounts built into it. So we had 15 or 16 different mount points on this race car," he said. Both Pitt and Idris were taught how to drive race cars for real. "When you see them driving in this movie, they are actually driving a race car on a Formula One track during race weekend. So the crowd in the stands is real. When you see other drivers getting in their cars around them, that all happened right before a real Formula One race. The idea was to give the viewer the sense of what it's like to be at one of these events," he said. Next for Kosinski is "Top Gun 3", which is already in development. Bruckheimer is also producing two of his other movies. "I've got three films in development, two with Jerry, including a sequel to Top Gun Maverick. Ehren Kruger is writing the script right now, who wrote 'F1' and also worked on 'Top Gun Maverick', so we got an incredible screenwriter working on it. Any opportunity to work with Jerry, I will take it," he added. "F1", an Apple Original Film, will be distributed in theatres and IMAX worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is produced by Bruckheimer, Plan B Entertainment, and Lewis Hamilton's Dawn Apollo Films. It will release in India on June 27 in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.
Forbes
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
'Haptic Trailer' For Brad Pitt's 'F1' Lets You Feel The Race On iPhone
In the movie "F1" Brad Pitt, shown opposite Damson Idris, is a Formula One racer who gets another ... More chance to prove himself. Want to feel what it's like to be Brad Pitt as a Formula One driver tearing around a racetrack? Apple has released a 'haptic trailer' for the upcoming racing film F1 that brings racing sensations to iPhones. The trailer leverages the phone's Taptic Engine to deliver vibrations that sync with the onscreen action as Pitt straps in for some high-speed shenanigans. Apple promises that viewers will 'experience the power of the engines, the rumble of the curbs and the intensity of every gear shift like never before with responsive vibrations.' That makes the haptic trailer sound more dramatic than it actually is, but the revs and roars are still a fun, novel way to draw interest for the film and demonstrate another way technology is making entertainment experiences more multisensory. The trailer works on iPhones 18.4 or later. F1, out in theaters June 27 from Apple Original Films, stars Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a fictional Formula One prodigy in the 1990s who has to retire due to a crash and now lives in a van and gambles his life away. In the film, a former teammate played by Javier Bardiem convinces Hayes to return to Formula 1 to save a struggling team and get the chance to prove he's still got it. I think we all know where this one's headed. 'As the engines roar, Sonny's past catches up with him and he finds that in Formula 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition, and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone,' reads a description of the film directed by Joseph Kosinski of Top Gun: Maverick, who also directed Tron: Legacy. Apple premiered the haptic trailer during this week's 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference. There, the company announced, among other things, its next iPhone operating software, iOS 26, which promises to screen scam calls and hold your place in the dreaded phone waiting line when you're stuck on hold. F1 features several F1 drivers including Lewis Hamilton in addition to starring Pitt, Bardiem, Damson Idris and Irish actor Kerry Condon, who gives Pitt's character a tough talking to in the trailer. 'They saying Sonny Hayes isn't a has-been,' she tells him. 'He's a never was.' Gauntlet thrown! Apple first introduced haptics to the iPhone in 2015 with a tiny motorized actuator that delivers subtle tactile sensations to confirm actions like toggling a switch or unlocking a device with Face ID and also provide discreet notifications when a phone's on silent. Last year, Apple released a number of accessibility features for iPhone users, including Music Haptics, which uses the Taptic Engine to layer synchronized sensations onto audio so those with hearing loss can get a more immersive listening experience. Feel the need for speed but don't have an iPhone? Here's a non-haptic version of the F1 trailer.
Irish Independent
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Predatory, terrifying and unacceptable' – why Jared Leto has become Disney's $200m problem
An Oscar-winning actor and frontman of the band 30 Seconds To Mars, Leto, has been accused by nine women of inappropriate behaviour – including claims his conduct was 'predatory, terrifying and unacceptable'. Leto has 'expressly denied' the accusations reported by Air Mail. They include an assertion by one woman that Leto approached her in 2006 when she was 16 and he was 35. She says Leto, who was seated in an LA cafe with then-19-year-old actor Ashley Olsen, grabbed the woman by the arm. 'I looked down, and it was Jared Leto,' she said, adding: 'We had a quick conversation, and he got my number.' We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review your details and accept them to load the content She continued that Leto called her home a few days later. 'I don't know if he was on drugs or what … It was the weirdest, grossest voice … [But] for me, it's Jared, you know?..the conversations turned sexual. He'd ask things like: 'Have you ever had a boyfriend? Have you ever sucked a d***?'' (Leto 'has not had a drink or used drugs in over 35 years', the actor's representative told Air Mail.) These and other accusations make for grisly reading – another woman recalls how, once, when she was 18, Leto 'suddenly pulled his penis out and started masturbating'. With Leto insisting on his innocence, Disney executives will surely thinking towards damage limitation ahead of Tron: Ares. The film's plot has been kept largely under wraps, but given that Leto is to play the eponymous artificial intelligence 'Ares', removing him from the film would be no easy task. Following the failure of a previous Tron spin-off − 2010's Tron: Legacy − the studio may wish it could just hit AI Overview Ctrl+Alt+Delete on the entire franchise. The stakes are high for Disney as it tries to move beyond a succession of flops, including the disastrous Snow White live-action reboot which is estimated to have left the Magic Kingdom $115 million in the red. Factoring in associated marketing costs, it is believed Tron: Ares would need to generate $400 million just to break even. But who would want to see the third movie in a fading series whose title character is played by potential persona non grata, Jared Leto? Even before these latest accusations, there were question marks around the now 53-year-old actor. In 2018, Disney actor Dylan Spouse tagged Jared Leto in a tweet and said, 'Yo @JaredLeto now that you've slid into the dm's of every female model aged 18-25, what would you say your success rate is.' ADVERTISEMENT Learn more In a since deleted post, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn added, 'he starts at 18 on the internet?' Leto appears not to have taken the Gunn's shade to heart. Twelve months later, in 2019, he was photographed in Croatia, modelling white robes and a Jesus-like beard, surrounded by fans of 30 Seconds To Mars (in which his brother Shannon plays drums). There was a moment involving a gun and some cocaine, that may have been a turning point for me They had accompanied him to Central Europe for the latest in a series of 'summer camps', where activities include yoga, cooking classes and a 30 Seconds To Mars performance. Dressing up was part of the fun at these events − and Leto was the trend-setter with his Christ-like outfit (The camps were discontinued after the pandemic). Just so nobody missed what he was going for, the band's social media wrote: 'Yes, this is a cult #MarsIsland.' Leto may have styled himself as the head of a cult, but his childhood reads closer to a Southern Gothic novel. He was born in impoverished Bossier City, Louisiana, where the major local industry was a trio of riverside casinos. His father, Tony Bryant, abandoned the family when he was an infant. Leto recalled his father's last words as: 'I'll see you, kid, just going to the store to get a carton of milk'. Bryant would die by suicide when Leto was eight. His mother Constance later married Carl Leto, Jared's adoptive father. However, there was little stability in Leto's life. By 16, he was taking drugs and paying for his habit with theft. 'There was a moment involving a gun and some cocaine, that may have been a turning point for me. I knew it wasn't good,' he would say. He turned himself around, though and, aged 22, had his big break as Jordan Catalano in the teen drama My So-Called Life. It's probably as well that Leto and his 30 Seconds To Mars 'Echelon' – as fans call themselves – have a strong bond. Cinema has proven to be a less supportive environment. In 2014, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a transgender character in Dallas Buyers Club. However, his campaign to carve out a space in blockbusters came unstuck with his disastrous turn in Suicide Squad in 2016. The problem wasn't Leto on screen – he was perfectly fine as a sleazy Joker. The issue was his behaviour off-camera and rumours he had gone too far trying to freak out other cast members. 'He did some bad things. He gave some really horrific gifts,' said Suicide Squad star Viola Davis. 'He had a henchman who would come into the rehearsal room, and the henchman came in with a dead pig and plopped it on the table, and then he walked out. And that was our introduction to Jared Leto.' Along with the pigs, Leto was said to have sent used condoms, dead rats and pornographic magazines. Even Will Smith was weirded out. 'First,we found out that Jared wasn't going to be in rehearsals,' said Smith, who played Deadshot. 'And we were like, 'That's messed up! How is he not going to be in rehearsals?' And then there was a bang on the door, and this dude barges in and throws a dead pig on the floor in front of us. We're like, 'OK. Jared has officially set off the Suicide Squad. He went full Joker'.' 'It was like seeing Jesus walking into a temple. Everybody became super silent… everyone was in awe Going 'full Joker' was nothing new. Throughout his career, he has taken method acting to extremes. In preparation for 2022's superhero film Morbius, Leto met 'doctors and patients who could teach him about living with a rare, incurable blood disease'. He'd taken things ever further, appearing opposite Lady Gaga in Ridley Scott's House Of Gucci. 'I did it all,' Leto told i-D magazine. 'I was snorting lines of arrabbiata sauce'. In Blade Runner 2049, in which he played a villainous and blind tech evangelist, he wore special contact lenses that reduced his vision. 'He was walking with an assistant, very slowly,' director Dennis Villeneuve told the Wall Street Journal. 'It was like seeing Jesus walking into a temple. Everybody became super silent, and there was a kind of sacred moment. Everyone was in awe.' Most drastic of all was Dallas Buyers Club, for which he shed weight by eating nothing but cucumbers. 'I stayed in character the entire shoot. I couldn't imagine doing it another way. I'd gone too far to pick it up and drop it off,' he told the Guardian. ' 'I lost around 40lb [almost three stone] and then I stopped counting. For me, it was about how it made me feel, how it made other people treat me. I got down to something like 114lb [about eight stone], and that was enough to do what I wanted it to do, which was to change everything about me.' He was widely acclaimed for Dallas Buyers Club. Suicide Squad, however, was a mess, and Leto's scenes were cut significantly. He would later deny the grisliest of the rumours and was reportedly outraged when Warner Bros announced it was pivoting to a Joker origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix, directed by Todd Phillips (for which Phoenix would win an Oscar). 'Leto's frustration that Warner Bros was moving ahead with the Phillips project was so great early on that he tried to throttle the rival Joker in its cradle,' according to a 2019 article in the Hollywood Reporter. 'According to sources familiar with Leto's behaviour, when the Oscar-winning actor learnt of the Phillips project, he not only complained bitterly to his agents at CAA, who also represent Phillips, but asked his music manager, Irving Azoff, to call the leader of Warners's parent company.' Then came his Citizen Kane of terrible films, the Venom spin-off Morbius, in which Leto played a moody vampire − a role described by the Telegraph at the time as a 'cross between Russell Brand and a Barbary macaque'. He went on to star opposite Anne Hathaway in We Crashed, Apple TV +'s underwhelming chronicling of the rise and fall of the We Work startup (ironically – or perhaps appropriately – Leto has reportedly made a $90 million fortune from early investments in tech companies such as Airbnb and Uber). He has since gone back on the road with 30 Seconds To Mars. But it was on the big screen that his attentions were focused with Tron: Ares to have been followed by a big screen reboot of Masters of the Universe, with Leto playing sarcastic mega-villain Skeletor. In the case of Tron: Ares it is too late for Disney to flip the ejector switch. The project is essentially done and dusted and Disney has already put out a series of trailers – top heavy with Tron's familiar wiz-bang 'light cycles', along with footage of Leto's co-stars Gillian Anderson, Greta Lee and Jeff Bridges (returning from the original).
Engadget
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
The new F1 trailer has star power, fast cars and product placement
The high-octane racing film F1 hits theaters this June and there's a brand-new trailer to prove it . The new footage shows more of the story and gives a deeper dive into Brad Pitt's main character. There's still gobs of actual Formula 1 racing, as the movie has received extensive involvement from the organization . It looks fast, frenetic and fun . There's also plenty of product placement during these scenes, which may be annoying to some but could add to the realism for others. In addition to F1 sponsors you'd see during a real race, we spotted logos for Shark/Ninja and Expensify on the fictional team that features in the film. To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so. Brad Pitt is the primary star here, but the film also features Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies and Kim Bodnia. F1 is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who helmed the box office monster Top Gun: Maverick . He also made Tron: Legacy , though has no involvement with the upcoming Tron: Ares . Ehren Kruger wrote the screenplay, who penned the aforementioned Top Gun sequel. The legendary Hans Zimmer created the score. This is certainly a high-end production. Formula 1 has been growing in popularity these past few years, with a surge in filmmaking about this type of racing. Netflix released a documentary series about the organization called Formula 1: Drive to Survive, which is credited in growing the sport's audience away from Europe.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bossier City native Jared Leto readies for upcoming movie 'Tron: Ares'
BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — After years in development, the sequel to Disney's hit movie 'Tron: Legacy' is finally on its way, featuring Bossier City native Jared Leto. 'Tron: Ares,' set to be released in October, follows the events of the second installment in the Tron franchise, which began with the original film released in 1982. According to IMDb, Jared Leto will star in the film as a sophisticated program named Ares. The character is sent from the digital world to the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with an artificial intelligence being. This year's Masked Singer winner to headline R&B Jazz festival In the movie trailer, fans witness a clash between the two worlds, suggesting a hostile takeover. The film continues from where the second movie, 'Tron: Legacy,' concluded. In the second installment, a digital program played by Jeff Bridges gathered an army to merge the two worlds. Although they failed in their initial attempt, it seems that the digital programs are now succeeding in their efforts to create the world envisioned by their predecessor. Fans will be thrilled to hear that Jeff Bridges is returning for 'Tron: Ares.' However, it remains unclear which of his characters will make an appearance on the big screen. Alongside Bridges and Jared Leto, the film will also feature a talented cast that includes Gillian Anderson, Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Sarah Desjardins, and Jodie Turner-Smith. Shreveport chef to appear on Food Network's 'Beat Bobby Flay' Jared Leto is no stranger to playing characters in science fiction films. Next year, he will also star in the superhero movie 'Masters of the Universe,' which tells the story of a young man on Earth who discovers a hidden legacy. Leto also appeared in 'Blade Runner 2049,' alongside Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, as well as in Marvel's action-horror film 'Morbius.' 'Tron: Ares', directed by Joachim Rønning, will be released in theaters on October 10. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
