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Discovered: 'Formula One' co-star for Brad Pitt

Los Angeles [US], April 9: 'Snowfall' star Damson Idris has joined Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt in 'Formula One' film.


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The update has been shared by The Hollywood Reporter.

Joseph Kosinski is set to direct the racing movie, as well as produce alongside Jerry Bruckheimer. Ehren Kruger, one of the writers on Maverick, will pen the screenplay. The Apple project will see Pitt, according to the project's synopsis, "as a former driver who returns to the sport. Damson Idris joins as his teammate." The untitled Formula One film will receive theatrical distribution, with an exclusive -- and global -- run of at least 30 days before heading to the Apple TV+ platform.

The tech giant, which counts the Cannes-bound Killers of the Flower Moon and Ridley Scott's Napoleon as upcoming releases, has been gearing up to release more films theatrically. Apple is partnering with Paramount for the October theatrical release of Martin Scorsese's Flower Moon. Apple landed the package in one of 2022s biggest deals. At the time, sources told Deadline the package was in the USD130 million-USD140 million range, before above-the-line compensation. Apple is also currently working with Pitt and Plan B Entertainment on a Jon Watts-directed film that stars Pitt and George Clooney.




Three new Star Wars films are in the works, with more information inside.

All Star Wars fans should rejoice. Three new films will be added to the cinematic universe, according to studio executives.


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As per The Hollywood Reporter, James Mangold, Dave Filoni and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will direct three new Star Wars features. The announcement was made at Star Wars Celebration, held in London.

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that the company was working on expanding the mythological timeline created by George Lucas by pushing forward, backward and sideways. Mangold's movie is to be set in the deep past while Obaid-Chinoy's is set 15 years after the events of Rise of Skywalker, the last Star Wars movie.

Filoni's feature is to be set in the so-called present, as it will act as a climactic event for the current Star Wars series The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and the upcoming Ahsoka. Filoni is an executive producer and creative guide on these series.

Mangold described his project as a "Biblical epic" that would look at the origins of the Force and be set 25,000 years before any of the timelines and stories told by the movies and shows so far. "When I first started talking to Kathy about doing one of these pictures, what occurred to me was thinking about what kind of genre of movie within Star Wars I wanted to do," he said. "And I thought about a Biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, about the dawning of the Force. Where did the Force come from, when did we discover it, when did we learn how to use it?"

Obaid-Chinoy, meanwhile, said she is attracted to the idea of the hero's journey and was keen on immersing herself in a focus on a Jedi academy and a Jedi master. Ridley, for her part, didn't reveal too much, but did say she "was thrilled to be continuing this journey." More details regarding the three films are awaited. Star Wars movies have been conspicuously absent from the big screen since the end of 2019, when Disney and Lucasfilm released Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker.



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