After an impressive opening lap with over $150M at the box office, Brad Pitt and Joseph Kosinski’s F1 is looking like it’ll take home the trophy. But according to Variety, that won’t be enough racing action for Apple, which is “potentially” already moving forward with a sequel.
There isn’t any further information than that, but it would make sense. F1 has not only been a hit, but it has also begun a partnership with Formula One that seems to have energized interest in the sport.
Screenwriter Ehren Kruger, who wrote Top Gun: Maverick, is currently working on the script for Top Gun 3. He would undoubtedly be the guy to write another F1 movie, just as Kosinski is likely to return.
The news comes as Koskinski has teased a possible sequel that would include Tom Cruise, just as the actor and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are developing Days of Thunder 2. On a recent episode of my podcast, we teased the possibility of Cruise and Pitt teaming up for a sequel. They were meant to star together in the racing drama Go Like Hell, but that fell through and eventually became the film Ford v Ferrari. Kosinski has a lot coming up already, with Top Gun 3, a UFO movie at Apple, and a Miami Vice reboot. For Pitt, coming up for him is David Fincher’s Cliff Booth film at Netflix.
