Jodie Foster recently made headlines when she described F1as a movie made by artificial intelligence, but not in a “disparaging” way. Foster felt that the film’s storytelling was too mechanical, and presumably lacking soul. However, F1 emerged as the highest-grossing film of Brad Pitt‘s career with more than $630 million at the worldwide box office. It overtook a 2014 release that survived a tumultuous production that relied on decidedly human intervention. When the studio, Paramount, realized that the 2014 film’s third act wasn’t working, it decided to fund large-scale reshoots and hired A-list writers to come up with a fresh climax.
