Following months of meetings, auditions and even several days of driving tests, Apple Studios, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer have found their race car driver to steer their anticipated racing film set in the world of F1. Sources tell Deadline that Damson Idris has been tapped to co-star opposite Brad Pitt.

Producers have been meeting with prospects for the role going all the way back to November, with Kosinski, Bruckheimer and Apple execs seeing dozens of actors. At the top of the year the lists were cut down to a handful of actors, with Idris making the final cut.

Besides doing a number of screen tests, actors also had to show they had the goods to handle the film’s intense driving scenes and were put through a number of driving tests in January.

Kosinski is big on using natural effects after going a similar route when he put his actors in real fighter jets for Top Gun: Maverick; he hopes for the same with Formula One race cars in this film.

The untitled feature follows Pitt as a racer who comes out of retirement to mentor a younger driver and take his final stab at glory on the track as the younger driver’s teammate. For more, read the full Deadline report.

In other Apple TV+ news, Apple announced the winner of 'My Kind of Country,' music competition series as being Micaela Kleinsmith. 

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