Tom Cruise showed up at the London premiere of F1 and he and Brad Pitt tried to break the internet by hanging out together on a red carpet for the first time in decades. The movie became Apple’s first box office hit. So, naturally, there’s already talk of a sequel, and they’re teasing the possibility of Tom’s involvement.
“F1 director Joseph Kosinski has already floated the idea of making a sequel that would reunite Pitt with his “Interview With a Vampire” co-star Tom Cruise, who showed up to support his friend on the “F1” carpet in London before the film’s opening. The filmmaker went as far to say an “F1” sequel could be a crossover with Cruise’s NASCAR hit “Days of Thunder.”
“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,” Kosinski told GQ Magazine UK about his dream pitch. “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?”
I mean, the more we talk about Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, the less we’re talking about Damson Idris, but OK.
That title of that Variety article, though, wasn’t about the possibility of an F1 sequel. Their headline to lure the reader was about how “Brad Pitt Says His ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Movie With Tom Cruise Got Axed After Cruise Found Out He ‘Would Not Be Driving Much in the Movie’”, which they only address near the end of the piece.
“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,” Pitt said. “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.”
So, basically, the only way the two of them can be in a movie together is if they get the chance to go shaft for shaft and get enough of a good rub to feel like they’re real men, because this is what makes other real men hard.
You know what’s making me hard? Angelica Jade Bastién’s new piece on how “Brad Pitt is fooling you” at Vulture, which I linked to yesterday. The entire essay is great but in particular, at one point, she mentions a weird interaction Brad had with Bad Bunny in 2022 when they were on the Bullet Train press tour – and I had missed this when it happened! The Video Assumption (our favourite game of baseless conclusions) is that Benito is unimpressed and Brad is doing TOO MUCH.
Which, by the way, was the point of my piece, “Brad Pitt has no (more) rizz” a couple of weeks ago at The Squawk when I wrote about how try-hard this man is while fronting like he’s always the chillest dude in the room. What he’s doing in Benito’s presence is SO f-cking cringe, I can’t see how anyone can have a boner. But, somehow, as it seems is always the case where Brad is concerned, this moment did not take hold in the public consciousness. Just like the allegations against him for what he allegedly did on that private plane to Angelina Jolie and their children did not take hold. Just like the fact that his children want nothing to do with him – not his name, won’t be seen with him in almost nine years – has not taken hold.
The public is so committed to Brad Pitt’s coolness that despite so much evidence to the contrary, they’re determined to the point of volunteerism to help him maintain the image. Because otherwise, how can rich and attractive white men stay winning?
