F1: The Movie, Brad Pitt’s racing drama is mischievously described as “Barbie for dads.” Reviewers are tripping over themselves to find adjectives which praise it as “rousing entertainment” while protecting their gravitas by labelling it as a “cheesy” and a “big, dumb, fun summer flick.” Directed by Joseph Kosinski, of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ fame, it is blatantly commercial and you “probably have to turn off your brain a bit to truly enjoy it”. Motor racing fans will find it “surreal and spectacular.”
Whether it reaches Barbie’s near $1.5 billion box office takings remains to be seen.
Brad Pitt, 18 December 1963 6.31 am Shawnee, Oklahoma, star and co-producer along with Jerry Bruckheimer and Lewis Hamilton, has transiting Jupiter about to enter his financial 8th house for a year ahead which sounds profitable. Though he does have the September late Virgo Solar Eclipse conjunct his Midheaven and tr Uranus opposition his Solar Arc Midheaven exactly now – which could suggest either a crisis of career direction or a radical change.
His Solar Arc Jupiter is square his Uranus/Pluto midpoint moving to square his Pluto in two years – which suggests an unexpected success or success through a change of direction. On the other hand his SA Mars is opposition his Uranus/Pluto and then Pluto which hints at over confidence maybe getting in the way. His midpoints look discouraging in this July and edgy through August – so not all celebrations ahead instantly.
Joseph Kosinski, 3 May 1974, Iowa, a Sun Taurus with a tough-minded Mars Saturn in Cancer square Pluto (Moon) in Libra is equally not looking overly upbeat on his midpoints in the immediate future and will be unsettled by the September Solar Eclipse opposing his creative Venus in Pisces.
Principal Photography started on 8 July 2023 in Silverstone, England, on a high-tension Pluto inconjunct Mars in Leo which fits with the film’s death-defying content, though would not necessarily suggest an easy launch.
His girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, moved in with him in February 2024 – with his SA Jupiter conjunct his DSC and SA Mars squaring it, a nice reflection for expanding a relationship.
Brad Pitt is clearly too old at 61 to be playing a F1 driver. The movie has the Moon conj. Neptune so hopefully it will allow us to suspend our disbelief.