F1 is still at the center of Hollywood: the film with Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper at the Monaco GP arrives

Another film is coming to the F1 paddock. Formula 1 will soon return to the center of a major Hollywood production, and we are certainly not talking (not yet, at least) about the not yet announced sequel to F1 The Movie, the film recently awarded at the Oscars and starring Brad Pitt. The next feature film set in the GP paddock could in fact be the prequel to the “Ocean’s” saga, the famous 2000s series dedicated to the heists of the expert gentleman thief Danny Ocean played by George Clooney: the prequel will not be set in the present day but in the 1960s, with the parents of the thief-conman who ransacked Las Vegas in Ocean’s Eleven as protagonists. But what does Formula 1 have to do with it? It has something to do with it, and not even tangentially, because in fact the 1962 Monaco F1 Grand Prix will be the stage for the “big score” of the two protagonists of the new film, Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper, engaged in another theft that promises to be daring and spectacular. The film will be produced by Warner Bros and will be called simply “Oceans”: it should debut in cinemas in 2027, with Bradley Cooper himself directing after the abandonment of the two previous directors Lee Isaac Chung and Jay Roach during the course of the project. Margot Robbie’s announcement The setting in the place that is both the most glamorous and most traditionally linked to Formula 1 was announced by co-star and executive producer Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Barbie, Wuthering Heights) during the CinemaCon fair taking place these days in Las Vegas. “Before Danny Ocean even set foot in Las Vegas – explains Robbie, quoted by the trade magazine Variety – two brilliant minds taught him everything he knows… His parents. You will see them in their prime and, in our new film, as they pull off an epic robbery at the 1962 Monaco F1 Grand Prix.” The 1962 Monaco GP Oceans will not be the only new film in the narrative universe of Ocean’s Eleven, given that George Clooney is also working on the fourth episode of the series set in the present day. The 1962 Monaco Grand Prix took place on Sunday 3 June of that year and saw the victory of Bruce McLaren in the Cooper Climax followed by the two Ferraris of reigning world champion Phil Hill and Lorenzo Bandini, after Jim Clark’s pole position on Saturday. However, it is not yet known whether the F1 setting will be central to the film or just in the background, nor whether there will be actors playing pilots or other real characters.