Fresh from the success of F1 which released to full house on June 27, Brad Pitt is already considering its sequel. Interestingly, the potential follow-up to the racing movie might just reunite Pitt with good friend Tom Cruise. Speculations have been high ever since Cruise came to support Pitt during the F1 carpet in London ahead of the recent release. Director Joseph Kosinski is not opposed to the idea either. In fact, the filmmaker has already floated the plan! F1 also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem.
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Brad Pitt on F1 sequel
During an interview with The National, Pitt said, "I would want to drive again, selfishly speaking. F1 is still the focus. It needs to be on Joshua Pierce – Damson Idris’s character – and the rest of the team fighting for a championship. Where does Sonny fit in? I’m not sure. Sonny’s probably out on the Bonneville Salt Flats, setting speed records or something like that. So I’m not sure beyond that, just yet."
F1 had a $144 million worldwide opening. It features Pitt as a racing driver who returns to Formula One after a 30-year gap to save his former teammate's underdog team, APXGP, from collapse. "Right now, I’m just pleased as punch that something like this can bring people together. That’s the power of this kind of cinema," Pitt added.
Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise collab
If Pitt collaborates with his Interview With a Vampire co-star Cruise in the F1 sequel, it could be a crossover with Cruise's NASCAR hit Days of Thunder, as stated by the director.
Expressing his dream pitch, Kosinski told GQ Magazine UK, "Well, right now, it’d be Cole Trickle, who was [Cruise’s] ‘Days of Thunder’ character, we find out that he and [Brad Pitt’s] Sonny Hayes have a past. They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed paths. … I heard about this epic go-kart battle on ‘Interview With a Vampire’ that Brad and Tom had, and who wouldn’t pay to see those two go head-to-head on the track?"
Ford v Ferrari with Pitt and Cruise
Interestingly, Kosinski had an original plan to bring the two Hollywood icons together on screen in his own version of Ford v Ferrari where they were supposed to do their own racing. However, the plan fell flat when the studio did not approve the budget Kosinski demanded.
Pitt revealed another reason for his version of Ford v Ferrari not taking off. He told The National, "Tom and I, for a while there, were on ‘Ford v Ferrari’ with Joe [to direct]. This was about 10 years before the guys who actually made it – and made it a great movie. What it came down to is that we both wanted to drive, and [Tom] wanted to play Shelby, and I wanted to play Ken Miles. And when Tom realized that Carroll Shelby would not be driving much in the movie, it didn’t come through. So I’m not sure how that’s going to work [in a potential ‘F1’ sequel], but we’ll give it a go. I’d love to."
Ford v Ferrari was eventually made with Christian Bale and Matt Damon, with James Mangold directing it in 2019.