Brad Pitt Will Drive a Real Formula 1 Race Car in Joseph Kosinski’s Next Movie, and More News

Brad Pitt Will Drive a Real Formula 1 Race Car in Joseph Kosinski’s Next Movie, and More News

This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as a Cliffhanger reboot, Gladiator 2, and Mortal Kombat 2. This WEEK’S TOP STORY BRAD PITT WILL DRIVE A REAL FORMULA 1 RACE CAR FOR TOP GUN: MAVERICK DIRECTOR JOSEPH KOSINSKI (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Getty Images)
There are many reasons why Top Gun: Maverick (Certified Fresh at 96%) was one of last year’s biggest blockbusters, but one of them may have been the immersive thrill ride made possible by Tom Cruise and his co-stars actually filming themselves from inside jet fighter...

This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as a Cliffhanger reboot, Gladiator 2, and Mortal Kombat 2. This WEEK’S TOP STORY BRAD PITT WILL DRIVE A REAL FORMULA 1 RACE CAR FOR TOP GUN: MAVERICK DIRECTOR JOSEPH KOSINSKI (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Getty Images)
There are many reasons why Top Gun: Maverick (Certified Fresh at 96%) was one of last year’s biggest blockbusters, but one of them may have been the immersive thrill ride made possible by Tom Cruise and his co-stars actually filming themselves from inside jet fighter cockpits. For his next film, director Joseph Kosinski will attempt to deliver something similar, as Brad Pitt will actually drive a real Formula 1 race car in his currently untitled film about the sport. Top Gun: Maverick was eventually nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and this film might be chasing similar prestige, as one of Pitt’s co-stars will be Kerry Condon, who was nominated for an Academy Award this year for her work in The Banshees of Inisherin (Certified Fresh at 96%). Other Top Headlines 1. PEDRO PASCAL TO CO-STAR IN GLADIATOR SEQUEL (Photo by FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Director Ridley Scott has a long history of attracting impressive ensembles for his films, including 2000’s Gladiator (Certified Fresh at 80%), and for that film’s sequel (11/22/2024), he’s again stacking the deck. So far, the sequel’s cast includes Denzel Washington, Barry Keoghan, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn, and Paul Mescal in the lead role. The latest star to join is Pedro Pascal, who is coming off an impressive 12 months that included season 3 of The Mandalorian and HBO’s The Last of Us . Incidentally, the show that introduced Pascal to a lot of fans for the first time was Game of Thrones , in which his character Oberyn Martell meets his end in a rather gruesome gladiatorial duel. 2. TAIKA WAITITI TO ADAPT GIRL-ROBOT TALE KLARA AND THE SUN (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) Taika Waititi might be best known to some for his work on the Marvel movies Thor: Ragnarok (Certified Fresh at 93%) and its sequel, but his smaller films have frequently centered on lonely kids, as in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Certified Fresh at 97%) and Jojo Rabbit (Certified Fresh at 80%). With his Star Wars project still working its way through development and no further Marvel projects in sight, Waititi is now in talks with Sony Pictures to direct an adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel Klara and the Sun . This recent novel by the author of The Remains of the Day (which was also adapted into a film) will be set in a dystopian near-future in which robots are created to care for lonely children and families. In other words, it’s like M3GAN, but probably with a lot less murder. 3. LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S A MOVIE ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Photo by NBC/Getty Images)
Director Jason Reitman’s most recent movie was 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Fresh at 63%),  but he isn’t directing that film’s sequel (Monster House director Gil Kenan is), which is currently scheduled for release on December 20, 2023. Instead, Reitman is signed with Sony Pictures to direct a very different film about the evening of October 11, 1975 when a group of young comics and writers first broadcast the show that would become Saturday Night Live . There is no indication yet who might portray such early SNL players as Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtain, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and showrunner Lorne Michaels. 4. ANDREW GARFIELD TO PORTRAY ASTROPHYSICIST CARL SAGAN IN VOYAGERS (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)
Decades before Neil deGrasse Tyson, the most famous astrophysicist and author who brought the Cosmos to TV audiences was Carl Sagan. Now, Andrew...