Keanu Reeves Steals the Show With F1 Series Amid Hype for Lewis Hamilton’s $140,000,000 Brad Pitt Starrer

Brad Pitt and Lewis Hamilton took the Formula 1 world by storm when they announced a collaboration for F1’s first-ever Hollywood venture. The shooting got underway at the British GP and the hype for it still remains unmatched. But to steal the limelight away from that $140 million project, the world’s beloved hitman, the man who played ‘John Wick’, Keanu Reeves has begun work on his own F1 documentary with Disney+.

Over a year ago, Variety announced that Keanu Reeves jumped onto the F1 x Entertainment boat as an Executive producer for a special documentary on the journey of Ross Brawn. It is a four-part docuseries that will focus on Brawn rebranding the Honda team in 2009 and leading them to an unexpected World Championship triumph. Now, the hype is going to be unbridled as Disney+ has released a first look of the Reeves prepping on the racetrack.

Brawn GP came out of nowhere into Formula 1 in 2009. With their drivers, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, they won both world championships with Button winning the Drivers’. Consequently, the Briton has also been roped in, along with Brawn, of course, to helm the documentary ship in the right direction.

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Along with 2 people who have lived the story, Disney’s move of getting Reeves on board is surely a genius one. After all, Reeves has starred in a movie titled ‘Speed’. It was always there in his destiny. Let us look at how this project came to be.

Keanu Reeves shares the origin story of the Disney+ Brawn docuseries and his excitement working on it

Lewis Hamilton’s home turf at Silverstone has been a magical one. This year, Brad Pitt-starrer ‘Apex’ (working title) got underway at the iconic track. Moreover, in 2022, the British GP was the same place where Keanu Reeves shared the origin story of the idea of how the Brawn documentary came to be.

“A friend of mine was telling me the story and I was so struck by it and he was actually working for Brawn back in the day in publicity and he’s a producer/director and so we were like, well let’s tell that story, let’s try and tell that story,” Reeves told Martin Brundle at the British GP.

He elaborated on what actually went behind the scenes in 2009: “It’s been really great to be able to learn more about what was going on in Formula One that year. It wasn’t just the cars, new regulations, FOTA [the Formula One Teams Association], breakaway series. I mean there was just so much happening in Formula One at that time. The world of Formula One was just extraordinary. I mean, it’s always extraordinary, but in that year with Brawn GP I think something really special happened.”

With Reeves and Pitt delving deep into the Formula 1 world, the sport will no longer cater to a niche audience. Even bigger commercialization is around the corner and we, as fans, are all for it.

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