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Poster for F1. Close-up image of Brad Pitt’s face. He is wearing a racing helmet. On the right-hand side of the image are the words ‘Brad Pitt’, ‘F1’ and ‘Only in Theatres Summer 2025’.

F1: The Movie (2025) © Apple

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies
Production Company: Apple Studios, Dawn Apollo, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Monolith Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros
Kent Locations Used: Brands Hatch

F1: The Movie (2025) follows Sonny Hayes, a Formula One driver forced to retire after a terrible crash, who returns to the scene to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua Pearce for the Apex Grand Prix team.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion), the film has an A-list cast including Brad Pitt (World War Z (2013), Fight Club) as Sonny Hayes, Damson Idris (Black Mirror – Smithereens (2019), Snowfall) as Joshua Pearce, Kerry Condon (Dom Hemingway (2013), The Banshees of Inisherin) as Kate, Javier Bardem (Skyfall, No Country for Old Men) as Ruben and Tobias Menzies (King Lear (2018), This Way Up (2021)) as Banning.

The production visited Kent to film at Brands Hatch.

Brands Hatch is a former renowned F1 racetrack with views across almost the entire Indy circuit. Surrounded by woodland, the site is operational and also has a rally course and an off-road 4×4 course. Other productions to have filmed there include Rush (2013) and My Fault: London (2025).

F1: The Movie (2025) will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 27^th June 2025 and will be available to stream on AppleTV at a later date.

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World War Z - Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) standing in front of a queue of taxis

World War Z – Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) © Paramount Pictures

Director: Marc Forster

Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof (screenplay) and Max Brooks (novel)

Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Sterling Jerins, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale

Production Company: Skydance Productions, Hemisphere Media Capital, GK Films, Plan B Entertainment, 2DUX²

Kent locations used: Discovery Park, Sandwich

World War Z is an apocalyptic action, sci-fi film starring Brad Pitt (Fight Club, Oceans Trilogy) as United Nations researcher Gerry Lane who is forced to leave his family to travel across the world in a race against time to try and stop the zombie pandemic that is threatening to decimate humanity itself.

Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) running with soldiers down a street

Based on the 2006 bestselling novel of the same name by author Max Brooks, the film is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monster’s Ball)from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan (Lions for Lambs, State of Play) Drew Goddard (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Lost) and Damon Lindelof (Lost, Star Trek – Into Darkness).

Brad Pitt is a supported by Mireille Enos (The Killing), Sterling Jerins (Deception), Matthew Fox (Lost) and James Badge Dale (The Departed).

In September and October 2012, the World War Z production team visited Discovery Park in Sandwich, Dover to use the offices and laboratories to shoot scenes where Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) tries to find a cure for the zombie pandemic.

Discovery Park is the former head quarters of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. It offers large office complexes, scientific laboratories, warehouses and plants.

Discovery Park has previously been used as a film location by Sky Atlantic drama, The Tunnel (2013) and new BBC series James Mays Cars of People due out in 2014.

Don’t miss World War Z which is out in cinemas on Friday June 21^st 2013.

For more information about Kent’s Filming History please visit our Movie Map.

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