Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski started dreaming up a movie about Formula One racing while watching “Drive to Survive.” ...

Maverick" filmmaker Joseph Kosinski started dreaming up a movie about Formula One racing while watching "Drive to Survive." ...

(Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) FILE - Actors Brad Pitt, left, and Damson Idris appear on the grid before the British Formula One Grand Prix race at the Silverstone racetrack, Silverstone ...

(Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) FILE - Actors Brad Pitt, left, and Damson Idris appear on the grid before the British Formula One Grand Prix race at the Silverstone racetrack, Silverstone ...

“Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to Formula One like many Americans ... of the biggest movie stars in the world, Brad Pitt, drive a real race car at 180 miles an hour ...

"Top Gun: Maverick" filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to Formula One like many Americans ... and letting one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Brad Pitt, drive a real race car at 180 miles ...

These Formula One cars, they deal in grams,'' Kosinski ... If Lewis says that we're in a good place.'' The Brad Pitt factor ''This movie needed an icon kind of at the center of it,'' Kosinski ...

The recently released movie trailer features Brad Pitt and Damson Idris in the midst of filming a fictional racing drama, transmitting the adrenaline and emotion that characterise Formula 1.