{"id":7896113,"date":"2025-11-26T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?page_id=7896113"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:36:16","slug":"f1-movie-making-of-joseph-kosinski-below-the-line-interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/f1-movie-making-of-joseph-kosinski-below-the-line-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"F1’s Pit Crew How They Did It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Director Joseph Kosinski and his department heads had a need for speed. Here’s how they achieved it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director Joseph Kosinski has never shied away from a technical challenge. His first film, 2010\u2019s \u201cTron: Legacy,\u201d was on the cutting edge of digital de-aging by having current-day Jeff Bridges confronting the version of himself from 1982\u2019s \u201cTron.\u201d \u201cOblivion\u201d (2013) pioneered a technique that would later be adopted by the virtual environments of the sports-media company the Volume. And 2022\u2019s \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d placed actors in actual fighter jets for an almost unheard-of degree of realism.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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All of that seems like a warm-up to the challenges he faced on \u201cF1,\u201d the racing movie that stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, an over-the-hill driver hired to help rejuvenate a low-rated team. Kosinski had dreamed of making an immersive racing movie for years, but he couldn\u2019t have shot \u201cF1\u201d without first making \u201cMaverick,\u201d the zeitgeist-capturing $1.49 billion-grossing adventure that was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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