Following months of conferences, auditions and even a number of days of driving exams, Apple Studios, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer look to have discovered their race automobile driver to steer their anticipated racing movie set on the planet of F1. Sources inform Deadline that Damson Idris has been tapped to co-star reverse Brad Pitt. Kosinski is directing.
Kosinski will produce his untitled function alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Movies (High Gun: Maverick), seven-time Components One champion Lewis Hamilton and Plan B, with Copper CEO Penni Thow serving as govt producer.
Producers have been assembly with prospects for the function going all the best way again to November, with Kosinski, Bruckheimer and Apple execs seeing dozens of actors. On the prime of the yr the lists had been lower right down to a handful of actors, with Idris making the ultimate lower. Apart from doing quite a few display screen exams, actors additionally needed to present that they had the products to deal with the movie’s intense driving scenes and had been put via quite a few driving exams in January. Kosinski is massive on utilizing pure results after going an identical route when he put his actors in actual fighter jets for High Gun: Maverick; he hopes for a similar with Components One race vehicles on this movie.
The untitled function follows Pitt as a racer who comes out of retirement to mentor a youthful driver and take his remaining stab at glory on the monitor because the youthful driver’s teammate.
Apple landed the package deal in considered one of 2022s largest offers. On the time, sources advised Deadline the package deal was within the $130 million-$140 million vary, earlier than above-the-line compensation. That places it according to a number of massive package deal offers made final yr, the sort that appear completely suited to streamers that want content material however are nonetheless getting up to the mark on the event entrance.
Idris broke onto the scene together with his acclaimed function within the FX sequence Snowfall. The present’s remaining season simply premiered, and he has been on the lookout for that subsequent massive function as his schedule opened up. He was additionally not too long ago seen in Amazon’s Swarm.
He’s repped by CAA, M88 and lawyer John Meigs.
