Another movie coming to the F1 paddock
Formula 1 will soon be at the center of a major Hollywood production again, and we are certainly not talking (not yet, at least) about the not yet announced sequel to F1 The Movie, the film recently awarded at the Oscars starring Brad Pitt. The next feature film set in the GP paddock could in fact be the prequel to the “Ocean’s” saga, the famous 2000s series dedicated to the heists of the expert gentleman thief Danny Ocean played by George Clooney: the prequel will not be set in the present day but in the 1960s, starring the parents of the thief-swindler who had shaken up Las Vegas in Ocean’s Eleven.
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But what does Formula 1 have to do with it? It has everything to do with it, and not just tangentially, because in fact the 1962 Monaco F1 Grand Prix will be the stage for the “big heist” of the two protagonists of the new film, Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper, engaged in another robbery that promises to be thrilling and spectacular. The film will be produced by Warner Bros and will be simply called “Oceans”: it should debut in cinemas in 2027, with Bradley Cooper himself directing after the mid-production departure of the two previous directors Lee Isaac Chung and Jay Roach.
Margot Robbie’s announcement
The setting in the place that is both the most glamorous and traditionally linked to Formula 1 was announced by the co-star and executive producer Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Barbie, Wuthering Heights) during the CinemaCon fair currently taking place in Las Vegas. “Even before Danny Ocean set foot in Las Vegas – explains Robbie, quoted by the specialized magazine Variety – two brilliant minds taught him everything he knows… His parents. You will see them in their prime and, in our new film, while they pull off an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco F1 Grand Prix.”
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The 1962 Monaco GP
Oceans will not be the only new film in the Ocean’s Eleven narrative universe, as George Clooney is also working on the fourth episode of the series set in the present day. The 1962 Monaco Grand Prix took place on Sunday, June 3 of that year and saw the victory of Bruce McLaren in a Cooper Climax followed by the two Ferrari cars of the reigning world champion Phil Hill and Lorenzo Bandini, after the pole position on Saturday by Jim Clark. It is not yet known how central the F1 setting will be in the film or if it will only be a background element, nor if there will be actors playing drivers or other real characters.
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