Going from high-energy thrills within the air with Tom Cruise in High Gun: Maverick to the high-energy thrills on the bottom with Brad Pitt within the upcoming movie F1 would possibly appear to be a fairly apparent shift for director Joseph Kosinski. Nonetheless, the director says the flicks couldn’t have been extra completely different.
Kosinski’s work on High Gun: Maverick does hook up with his new movie, as System One star Lewis Hamilton almost cameoed in Maverick, and it was attributable to that the 2 started to speak, resulting in Hamilton changing into a producer of the film F1. Nonetheless, the director tells EW that the flicks had been fairly completely different in one other key method. As in High Gun, they had been in the course of nowhere, whereas a lot of F1 was filmed in entrance of a dwell viewers. Kosinski mentioned…
On High Gun, we had been off on an plane provider 100 miles off the coast. This film we shot in entrance of an viewers of 400,000 folks. Usually, I had just a few minutes to shoot a scene as a result of we had been truly capturing it at the actual dwell occasion. There was a stage-play-esque vibe to this the place we needed to be very effectively ready, however execute within the second and solely get a couple of takes at a scene.
F1 used a reasonably distinctive, however considerably apparent, technique for recreating the appear and feel of precise System One competitions by filming in the course of them. This meant they didn’t want to herald hundreds of extras or pretend crowds with CGI. Nonetheless, it additionally meant that filming was on a reasonably tight schedule.
Scenes of F1 could be filmed between the opposite festivities of the occasion. This meant everyone was restricted in what they may do, because the shoot didn’t wish to trigger issues with the precise races. In the event that they could not get the shot they wished, they needed to transfer on empty-handed.
Throughout High Gun: Maverick, the movie seemingly had on a regular basis on this planet. If a scene required a number of takes, not an unlikely scenario given they had been filming scenes with actors truly flying in jets, they may take the time to get what they wanted. Right here, everyone needed to be able to get it proper in a single take, as a result of in the event that they ran out of time, it might trigger severe delays.
Based mostly on the F1 trailer, this might be a film filled with pulse-pounding motion. But it surely’s additionally seemingly that pulses had been additionally pounding on the set as everyone dialed and knew they needed to do their jobs completely to ensure they may get what they wanted within the time that they had. We’ll all get to see the outcomes when F1 hits theaters subsequent month.